Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has shaken up leadership at the Gigafactory, its sprawling battery plant outside of Reno, Nevada, and is setting new goals for the facility.
The company’s former Vice President of Gigafactory Operations left Elon Musk’s electric vehicle and clean energy business this summer, but Hrushikesh “Hrushi” Sagar was promoted to oversee the Gigafactory. Sagar reports directly to CEO Elon Musk and will also be overseeing Tesla’s vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California, simultaneously.
Sagar spoke to a group of hundreds of Gigafactory employees on Thursday afternoon about management changes, performance reviews, factory milestones, and aggressive new goals for the facility. He also disclosed some information about progress in Tesla’s factories in Austin, Texas, and outside of Berlin, Germany.
During the meeting, Sagar celebrated the fact that Tesla made around 134,000 cars in its Fremont, Calif., factory in the second quarter of 2022, and said that August was one of the record months for Fremont in terms of production. The Fremont factory is now able to make around 12,000 cars per week and is aiming for 14,000 per week as its next goal, he said.
He also said that Tesla’s team in Brandenburg, Germany, recently hit a milestone of being able to produce 1,000 cars on a rolling seven-day basis. Musk recently visited the German factory and the company expects it to ramp production to make 5,000 cars per week by the end of 2022. Initially, Reno was sending drive units to Germany to aid in that effort.
Tesla’s new factory in Austin, Texas also hit the 1,000-per-week production rate.
TSLA shares jumped $2.31 to $291.57.
