Job postings on Tesla’s website outline its 100 GW ambition and follow reports that the company is in talks with Chinese companies to purchase equipment worth $2.9 billion for solar energy production.
Tesla is moving forward with its plan to deploy 100 GW of solar energy production on US soil by the end of 2028.
The ambition is outlined in job vacancies available on Tesla’s website. A listing for a staff production development engineer in solar energy manufacturing based in Fremont, California, says the company wants to fill the role to “select and develop new equipment and processes for energy products at scale.”
“This role is core to Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” the listing added.
The news follows reports that Tesla has been in talks with Chinese companies to purchase solar energy equipment.
According to a recent report from ReutersTesla wants to buy $2.9 billion worth of equipment, including screen printing production lines, from Chinese companies including Suzhou Maxwell Technologies, Shenzhen SC New Energy Technology and Laplace Renewable Energy Technology.
ReutersSources revealed that Suzhou Maxwell Technologies has sought approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce as the deal requires export approval from Chinese regulators. They added that the Chinese companies were told to deliver equipment by this fall, with Texas as the final destination.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first announced that his company was building 100 GW of solar energy in the US during an interview at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, adding that the goal will “probably take three years or something like that.” During the same interview, Musk said solar energy in space could makes AI more efficient than on earth.
In January, Tesla introduced its own Solar panels manufactured in the USA on the market for the first time, with the launch of its Tesla Solar Panel, assembled in its Gigafactory in New York. That’s what company representatives said at the time pv magazine USA the factory is scale up up to an initial capacity of more than 300 MW per year.
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