Reducing Carbon Footprint Even Further 1. Building new, better designed and more efficient factories Tesla Manufacturing Footprint: Current Actions Building a factory from the ground up with sustainability in mind can have a material impact on reducing energy use. For each component that requires less movement around the factory, and as we use fewer robots in the vehicle production process, energy consumption declines. In our quest for constant improvement, we build each new factory to be better and more sustainable than the previous one. For example, at Gigafactory Texas, we chose highly efficient, insulated, low emissivity windows to reduce building heating and cooling demand. In addition, waste heat recovery from our compressors alone will offset over 1 MW of natural gas consumption for process heating. While we have already completed substantial improvements at Gigafactory Shanghai, further improvements will continue at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg and Gigafactory Texas. Model 3 in Fremont, CA Model 3 in Gigafactory Shanghai kWh of Energy per Vehicle Produced Fremont Shanghai 64
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