Tesla's battery day showed a way to build battery factories at 2x the speed, much lower cost, using much smaller footprint. Here is some data to illustrate this:

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Kato Rd construction started in early 2020, is now producing cells, and will reach 10GWh/yr in about a year, so total <2 years, while doing development work on dry battery electrode. Kato Rd is 1/10 of the footprint of Tesla Nevada factory, which produces ~35 GWh/yr.

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SK Innovation is building 2 factories in Georgia:
1st one 9.8GWh, cost $1.7B, started building in March 2019, initial production in 2021, mass production in 2022
2nd one 11.7GWh, cost $1B, started in July 2020, production in 2023
Each factory takes 3 years, and $1B or more

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Tesla's Kato line has started production as we saw in battery day presentation. Tesla built it in ~9 months, and doesn't appear to have spent billions. Even if Kato building has to be built anew, it should cost < $100m and take 3-4 months more per Shanghai GF example

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