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Indeed, Terra E Holding GmbH announced that it would be building its own Gigafactory last week in a move that was seen as a challenge to Tesla's stake in the industry.

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Tesla (tsla), which is buying solar panel installer SolarCity (scty) for $ 2.6 billion in shares, unveiled the massive battery factory, the Gigafactory, in Nevada last week.

Last December, EnerBlu, a California - based advanced battery maker, announced plans to erect a $ 412 - million gigafactory in Pikeville — on the site of a shuttered coal mine — slated to launch in 2020 and employ up to 875 workers.

When electric - car maker Tesla touched off a multistate bidding war for its Gigafactory battery plant last year, most of the attention focused on the tax breaks and other incentives states were offering.

Last year, Tesla Motors finally brought a close to bids for a home for its new battery Gigafactory and selected Nevada as the winner.

Tesla started making its solar roofing tiles in Buffalo last month, meeting its goal to start shifting production by the end of 2017 to its South Park Avenue gigafactory of what it hopes will become a signature product for its renewable energy business.

These batteries are a mature technology, and last week Elon Musk announced plans to spend $ 2 billion on a «Gigafactory» to develop huge quantities of them for his electric car firm Tesla Motors.

«That's got to be disassembled, brought over to the gigafactory and reassembled and then brought into operation at the gigafactory,» Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a conference call earlier last week.

Last April, Musk announced that the Gigafactory would now officially be known as Gigafactory 1, that there would be others, and that he expects other companies to also build their own similar battery supplies (after all, if electric vehicles replace gasoline and diesel ones, a lot of batteries will be needed).

Like with the solar / battery microgrid installed on the island of Ta'u in American Samoa last year, the KIUC project uses Tesla's Powerpack 2 battery system, built at Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada.

Finally, a last interesting note: Tesla's strategy of opening up its patents to anyone who wants them has been extended to the Gigafactory and this battery technology.

By September of last year, the company had spent more than $ 608 million; battery production at Tesla's Gigafactory began just last week.