Trae (Trey) Stephens
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And this is really what our focus is right now.
We're building a huge factory campus in Ohio to enable us to ramp production capacity.
It's a new muscle for the business in the same way that Tesla went from building the Roadster to building the Gigafactory and starting to sell hundreds of thousands and millions of cars.
How big is the manufacturing facility in Ohio going to be?
Yeah, I mean, long term, it will be around 5 million square feet.
The first building is going to be just under a million square feet, and that will be up and running in the late first quarter of 2026.
Moving pretty fast.
Congratulations.
Thanks, yeah.
That's awesome.
It's sort of a weird homecoming for me.
It's like I left Ohio, and now I'm going back and working on this crazy factory.
Got to bring my mom to the ribbon cutting ceremony, which was pretty cool.
Yeah, no, it's really cool.
I mean, I was talking, I just spent some time with her this weekend back home.
And I was talking to her about like what our family, like our family story has been in Ohio.
And she was kind of going through the list of all of these factory jobs that my family had had.
It was like my grandfather worked at, one of them worked at Frigidaire, one of them worked at NCR, National Cash Register.
I had an uncle who worked at Ford.
Another one of my grandfathers worked at General Motors.