Inside the plant of world's one of the most innovative electric car company - The Assembly Line | ET Autolytics

Inside the plant of world's one of the most innovative electric car company

Tesla Motors's new 11-acre facility in Tilburg, Netherlands is where cars will be assembled and tested before delivery across Europe. It is a major expansion of an assembly space Tesla opened just two years ago.

Tesla needs the extra room as it launches the new Model X SUV and tries to expand from about 50,000 deliveries worldwide this year to 5,00,000 by 2020. When it is fully up and running, about 450 cars will roll off the line each week.

In this picture: Light tunnel, a quality-control station each car must pass through before being released into the wild.

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Employees fit a drive unit above the rear axle of a Tesla Model S. These all-electric cars have no engine, or transmission in the front.

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Teslas ride on hydraulic platforms during wheel fittings. The white factory walls and epoxy floors are an Elon Musk signature.

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It's not a car wash. This is rain testing. The water used in this all-glass testing booth is cleaned and reused. The new factory received the highest sustainability rank by rating agency BREEAM.

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The Tilburg, Netherlands, factory assembles the shell, battery pack, power train, and rear axle. Cars also get a European firmware upload.

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Each new Model S powers up before it is shipped.

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Assembly of cars is finished. Tesla now has 69 stores and service centers in 12 European countries.

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This particular vehicle has been given green signal.

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Super-villain headlights illuminate before shipping. Tesla's Supercharger network now has more than 1,000 high-speed chargers installed in Europe.

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A corner of Tesla's new factory in Tilburg. The Dutch have the second-highest rate of electric-vehicle adoption in the world (after Norway).

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