Well, let me just start off by thanking you all for your hard work, and just, I wanna express my immense admiration and appreciation for everything you've done to build Gigafactory Nevada , and to help revolutionize the world with. This factory has made a massive effect on transitioning the world to sustainable energy, and it's something you should be incredibly proud of, and I'm incredibly proud of you guys for doing it. Yeah. Let's see. We've made incredible progress at Tesla in building this factory and achieving a tremendous output of cells, drive units, power electronics, stationary battery packs, but there's more. It's hard to believe that it was almost a decade ago that we started building this place.
I mean, I can remember coming out here to the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, as it's interestingly named, and it was nothing. There was just rocks. Now we've got this incredible factory. It's the most advanced cell and battery and powertrain factory in the world. Yeah, this is literally from a pile of rocks. It actually took me a moment to sink in. I spent so much time in this factory. I actually was camping out on the roof at one point in a little tent. Just to sort of save time from going to the hotel, I just pitched a little tent on the roof and lived there. It gets pretty cold at night, I have to say.
Just coming in here and seeing all the snow on the ground, I mean, this is such a beautiful area that we're in. The wild horses, I think people sometimes don't believe me. It's just, it's a, basically like a paradise around here. It's, I think it's 10,000 wild horses just roaming around, snow on the mountains, you got Lake Tahoe nearby. A part of this, by the way, is a recruiting call for because we're gonna need a lot of people. Definitely talk to your friends and family about coming to work here 'cause we're gonna scale up big time, and it's gonna be great. Yeah, yeah.
It's interesting to see the original goal, where we thought, you know, you know, at the time people thought this was a crazy amount of batteries to make. In fact, this was when we started out, this one factory was set up to build more lithium-ion batteries than the rest of the world combined. And it remains by far the biggest factory in North America. And the reason we built it is because there literally weren't enough lithium-ion batteries. If you took all of the factories on Earth combined, it wouldn't be enough to make electric vehicles at scale. That's why we concluded we had to build a factory, a really big factory, which is why we where the Giga part comes in.
It's one of the biggest factories in the world, and it's gonna get bigger. In 2014 we projected 35 gigawatt-hours of battery cells and we're there. We've done $6.2 billion of investment. It's over 5 million sq ft, 11,000 team members, and we have 3,200 acres, of which we've still only used a small portion. We've got plenty of room to grow. I should say that the, you know, what I'm announcing today is actually not the end of it. It's just really phase two. There's gonna be like phase three and four. I mean, it really, it just takes a tremendous amount to transition the world to sustainability.
You've got to have giant factories if we are to move the world to a sustainable energy future. Yeah, so it's great. Where we are right now is we've made seven, over 7 billion cells. We're actually almost more cells than people. In fact, we've done over 3.5 million drive units, so motors and power electronics. We've made 1 million energy modules for stationary storage. It's Yeah, exactly. I always remind people, we also make stationary storage. That's very important. I mean, the three elements of a sustainable energy future, the three pillars are electric vehicles, stationary storage, and then solar and wind.
Because solar and wind are intermittent, you have to have the stationary storage to store the power for when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. Pretty basic, really. It's a three-step three pillars. This is all very doable and will be done, and will bring civilization to a sustainable energy future. That's, yeah. In terms of the economic impact, it's really substantial, $6 billion of total economic output every year. We've also put $37 million into K-12 education, and we're gonna increase that. And it's focused on robotics and sustainability. Yeah. Just yeah. Once again, thank you for your incredible work to bring us to this point. And it wouldn't. Obviously, thanks to you.
This photo is from our millionth energy module that we made just last Wednesday. Yeah, the risk of being repetitive, thank you very much. Now, all of that was just the beginning. Well, phase one at least. What we're announcing today is a massive additional investment. Here's a sneak peek of what the factory will look like. Yeah, it's like, "It's epic." I mean, you know, one of the other things that's really cool is we actually achieved our production goals with basically about half of what, of the space we thought would be needed. Now we're gonna fill out the other half, and we're, you know, onto phase two.
I should say these are conservative numbers, so we expect to exceed these numbers. I think we'll end up investing over $4 billion. We're adding another 4 million sq ft of manufacturing space and at least 3,000 direct jobs, and I think it'll probably end up being more than that. These are conservative estimates, so yeah. Yeah. We're gonna do our high-volume semi-truck manufacturing here. We're also gonna be adding 100 gigawatt-hours of Tesla 4680 cell manufacturing here, and that's just to start. I think long term, we may do as much as 500 gigawatt-hours long term.
This increment is 100 gigawatt-hours. Hugely important game changer. Just some videos of 4680 production. We expect the new cell factory, as I said, to produce at least 100 gigawatt-hours, as I said, that's really just to begin with. Long-term, Tesla is aiming to produce well over 1,000 gigawatt-hours, possibly 2,000 or 3,000. This really is just the start, and that's equivalent to 1.5 million additional Model 3 Y vehicles. We'll also be using 4680 for stationary storage as well. To be clear, this is in addition to our suppliers.
When you think about the fact that there's 2 billion cars and trucks on the road globally, obviously you gotta build a lot of electric vehicles to replace all the gasoline-powered vehicles. Then about as much as what again is needed for stationary storage of sustainable energy. Yeah, it's actually really incredible to think about, so. Yeah, some people have said this is impossible, but you can drive it. Although. In fact, we already have Tesla, the Tesla Semi Truck, in use by some of our key customers like Pepsi. This year is kind of like the limited production of the Semi Truck, and then hopefully sometime next year we'll be able to achieve volume production.
It's a game changer. Although trucks, semi trucks are only about 1% of the vehicles, they're actually responsible for 20% of the emissions. It's a much bigger effect than you'd think if you just looked at the number of vehicles. It's an essential part of a sustainable energy future. This is a beast. You can see it hauling ass up the mountain there. Pretty cool. I'd like to say just a also a big thank you to the State of Nevada, I'd like to invite Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo to join me.
Well, first and foremost, you guys look awesome. I wanna thank Elon. I wanna thank Elon for his partnership in helping improve your quality of life, my quality of life, and changing the world. Thank you. Round of applause for Elon. I appreciate everybody coming together today, giving me the opportunity to say hi, first and foremost, and hopefully some of you saw my state of the state last night. Did you? Hopefully, I said some things that made you happy, but I think we will. What is my role in this process that we're talking about today? Obviously, Elon's here to change the world. I'm here to change your life.
Well, just to be clear, I get way too much credit. The credit is theirs.
No, I understand that. Elon talked about his three pillars with electric energy, right? You got the EVs, you got the storage, and you got wind and solar. My three pillars as your governor is the economy, education, and your quality of life/public safety. No, that's all part of it. The economic driver is obviously Tesla, and it's changing the environment and your lives and Nevada's lives with your placement here in the state of Nevada. Now today with this expansion, it's even gonna double the quality of life and the economic engine and the drivers for us to be successful in the whole state of Nevada, in particular to northern Nevada. There's a young man in the audience that just came on my team. Tom Burns, can you come up here? If you don't mind, is that okay?
Yeah. Please join me.
You in the back can't see him. He's short. Tom is the new Director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development, and he is the one instrumental in partnering with Tesla to ensure that we get this project off the ground and built and ensuring that it goes in perpetuity into the future. Thank you, Tom. Stay here. That, that's the economic pillar, right? That's the economic pillar. The education pillar for the labor force, for the engineers and everything else that it takes to run a village, especially something as magnanimous as Tesla, takes a education system and a university system to produce those individuals to occupy those jobs. There's a very important person in the audience I'm gonna bring up, and it's former Governor Sandoval. Come up here.
You may not know, but he's also the president of UNR, where a lot of you might went to school. The president of UNLV was here a little while ago, but he decided to leave, and which upsets me because I'm from UNLV, and I wanted a little competition going on here. I appreciate Brian Sandoval being here. For those who also may not know, Brian Sandoval and Elon had a handshake agreement several years ago that started this whole thing in its infancy. Thank you, Brian. Thank you for your support.
Thank you.
The last piece in this is your quality of life/safety, in particular to I-80 right here, right? Tracy. Tracy. Can I get Tracy up here? Tracy Larkin, come on up. Who's shorter, Tom or Tracy? For those of you in the back, there's a young lady up here. She's the new Director of the Department of Transportation. I informed her major task, her primary task, is expansion of I-80, creating a safe environment for you to go to and from work. To ensure that Semi truck gets on the road and gets out of here.
Yeah.
All right? All right. That's what we're gonna do for you for the State of Nevada. That's what I'm gonna do for you as the Head of State of Nevada. Hopefully we can partnership with you into the future and ensure we have a very, very, very long-term relationship and everybody gets to be friends. Thank you.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you, Elon.