Batteries are critical to Tesla's future, known as the car company, but are now transforming into an ambitious alternative energy provider. On Wednesday, Panasonic, the company and its partners, announced the start of mass production of lithium-Tesla's ion battery at the giant battery plant in Nevada is known as the Gigabit battery plant. There are several important reasons why this is an important step. First of all, it takes a lot of batteries to power Tesla cars, includingThe market Model 3 that started production later this year. In 2018, the company plans to produce 500,000 cars, including S and X cars with Tesla. made batteries. Second, the Nevada plant produces Powerwall batteries for homes and businesses to store the energy generated by the solar roof. In November, Tesla merged with SolarCity, a rooftop solar company. The battery looks like a larger version of the AA battery and comes together to become a module for the Power Wall and the car. The current production operation will provide the same power wall built in Nevada. Tesla says battery production for Model 3 will begin this spring. So far, there are very few batteries made in the United States. S. "Bring cell production to the United StatesS. "This allows us to create thousands of jobs in the United States," the company said . "Tesla says the Geely plant will eventually employ 6,500 workers and create between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs in the region. Tesla released its fourth on Tuesday. Production and delivery fell slightly in the quarter. The company said it produced 882 vehicles, bringing its total of 2016 vehicles to 83,922, an increase of 64% over 2015. About 22,200 vehicles were delivered in the quarter, of which 12,700 were S and 9,500 were X. A total of 2016 deliveries was approximately 76,230. The company accused "short-"From the end of October to the beginning of December, due to some delays in the production of new cars, the switch to new self-driving hardware. Therefore, at the end of the quarter, vehicle production was more important than originally planned. "We were ultimately able to recover and achieve our production targets, but delays in production resulted in challenges that affected quarterly delivery, including, among other things, the company said: "cars in Europe and Asia lack shipping deadlines. ". "While we are trying to restore these deliveries and speed up other deliveries at the end of the quarter, there is not much time until we deliver all our customer cars. Tesla said about 2,750 cars had missed delivery in the fourth quarter. The company also said demand for cars was particularly strong in the last three months of the year. Net orders for Model S and Model x increased by 52% over 2015 and 24% over 2016.