Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene releases at Tesla Gigafactory fell from 45k lb to 6k lb (86% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Tesla Gigafactory
Total reported releases 1.1M lb held roughly steady year over year (+5%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
1 ELECTRIC AVE, Sparks, Nevada · 335910 · Electrical Equipment · operated by Tesla INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Nickel And Nickel Compounds
Nickel And Nickel Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
Cobalt And Cobalt Compounds
Cobalt And Cobalt Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2019.
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have more than doubled since 2018.
Benzoyl peroxide
Benzoyl peroxide concentrations have fallen 31% since 2023.
Diisocyanates
Diisocyanates volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations are up 11% since 2019.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Storey County County, NV (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 4,095. Why we surface this →
9.1%
Low-income
17.3%
People of color
4.9%
Under age 5
37.3%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.