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Breaking Industry Supply Chain News from Tesla

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Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development involving Tesla’s existing Nevada based Gigafactory that will be of interest to Automotive EV manufacturers and their supply networks. Tesla Announces Added Investment in Gigafactory Nevada Electric auto maker Tesla has announced a reported $3.6

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U.S. Freight Rates Reach Six Year Low Milestone

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percentage points below the February value of 54.7, percentage points down from the January reading of 57.6. Separate U.S. government data indicates that trucking employment in March declined at the most significant rate since the early days of the pandemic.

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Tesla Makes Plans for Megapack Battery Production in China

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The company’s Sparks, Nevada based gigafactory can also produce megapacks. Reportedly, the megapack to be produced in Shanghai can store 3.9 MWh of energy. In 2021, Tesla acquitted a former JC Penny distribution center located in Lathrop, California for the initial production of megapacks.

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Tesla’s Audacious Growth Plans Unveiled Including New Production Plant

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billion investment in its existing Gigafactory complex located in Sparks, Nevada. From our Supply Chain Matters lens, we sense a supply network pattern evolving that could conceivably tie together the Nevada and now planned Monterrey gigafactories with battery cells and components within driving distance proximity.

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Experts Unfold Top Supply Chain Technology to Watch

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Jim Hoefflin, president and COO of logistics, Kewill Driverless trucks, currently being tested in Germany and Nevada, could be revolutionary to the supply chain and might be the solution to the truck driver shortage that’s poised to have a huge negative impact on the industry. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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U.S. Logistics Manager’s Index Drops to an All Time Low in May

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The reported May value of 47.3 compared to the April value of 50.9, and was noted as a “ new all-time low and for the first time in its 6.5-year year history it has moved into contraction territory.”

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Breaking Supply Chain News- Panasonic Plans an Additional EV Battery Production Facility in the U.S.

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These developments come five years after Panasonic began production of lithium-ion batteries at Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) , referred to as Tesla’s Gigafactory , in Sparks, Nevada. . Part of Broader North America Based EV Supply Network Investments.