Posted on 02/19/2017 5:19:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Head of the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development says Tesla has hired more than 1,000 workers at its Gigafactory plant outside of Reno, and on pace to increase hiring by another 150 to 200 workers each month. Executive Director Steve Hill told the Senate Finance Committee last week during a budget review meeting that the California-based electric carmaker and energy company is ramping up hiring and expects the factory to have 3,200 workers by March 2018. “They’re hiring 150 to 200 more every month,” says Hill.
News of Tesla’s workforce expansion comes on the heels of an independent audit conducted by Grant Thornton for the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development which had confirmed that Tesla was meeting all applicable targets established by the state when it agreed to a $1.3 billion tax incentive package.
Nevada governor Brian Sandoval also recently reaffirmed rapid growth taking place at the Gigafactory during his State of the State address that revealed that Tesla will be investing an additional $350 million into the Sparks, Nevada-based factory to expand production to include Model 3 motors and drivetrain assemblies.
The Record-Courier reports that Hill also touched on developments taking place at Faraday Future, saying that the electric car startup, which has a construction site in Southern Nevada, has invested about $160 million so far. Expenditures involved purchasing the property at Apex and funding the engineering and utility work there. The 650,000 square foot Faraday’s factory is scheduled to open in 2018 and aimed at producting 12,000 cars a year. Hill notes that the reveal of Faraday Future’s FF91 at CES was “a significant milestone that provides significant value for that company.” but the company faces its next biggest challenge to “manufacture it, get it out the door and sell it.” “The potential value of the company will jump then,” Hill adds.
Tesla and Faraday have both received tax credits to move their factories to Nevada. Tesla has over $1 billion in tax breaks, while Faraday received $335 million during special sessions of the Nevada Legislature.
Tesla = metrosexual hipster wet dream
I’ll bet none of the cars in that factory parking lot photo are Teslas.
Tesla employees here in CA are very unhappy with the company’s treatment of workers and in working conditions.
1000? Disneyworld has 55,000 workers a day durig peak season.
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Their infatuation with the redesign of autos converted to electricity is a bit over drawn. According to Green Car Reports, assuming that age remains the same going forward, it would take until at least the 2037 model year—11 years after compliance is achieved for all new cars—for 50 percent of vehicles on the road to comply. And that’s just in the US where our capacity is much larger than the rest of the world. Accounting for sales in model years 2020 through 2026 though, FleetCarma says that 50-percent figure could be achieved by model year 2034. If you tack that on to the loss of operational petroleum companies world wide that depend on their sales to feed their country, who’s going to foot that deficit? Lazlow strikes again.
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Back in the 80's when the GM Van Nuys CA Camaro/Firebird plant was still open, I did some major facilities work for them. My light vehicles were all Fords. We couldn't park them in their lots. They were really nice and made me a deal on some of their vehicles. No problem with the Peterbuilts.
That car simply does not go far. The real story about Tesla will only be known when all the open and hidden subsidies are eliminated. This company at its core may not be economically viable.
“...the loss of operational petroleum companies world wide that depend on their sales to feed their country, who’s going to foot that deficit?”
I don’t think I care anything about them. They can all go to hell
Amazing what one can do with a few billion in taxpayer subsidies
-——That car simply does not go far.——
That’s a very expensive drive around the town car...
In Brandon Florida, Tesla put six charging stations in a parking lot of a strip mall with a movie theater complex...arcross from the large mall.
I drive past there several times a week and never seen any car being charged....
Of course no one in the right mind would sit in a parking lot for hours to charge their car or walk the mile across a major busy road to go to the Mall...
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
Aahhhh yes, not in Kalifornia. While Tesla does have some business in Kalifornia, this plant is in Nevada, where business is welcome. On the other hand, while I know Musk has received tax payer’s funds, SpaceX is leading the way and Robert Heinlein would have been supportive of SpaceX. They are moving forward with many innovations, and causing the entire world to rethink and retool their outer space efforts.
“I don’t think I care anything about them.”
I don’t really care about the problems that they have been expecting us to fix over the last 100 years, either, but we’re not talking about finances, social, or natural disasters. This one, hunger, is a basic need and it makes even the most docile of animals fight for its survival.
The US is the true bread basket for the world. More edible required food is grown here than most of the world combined. If the starving people around the world can’t get the food without a source of paying or trading for it, to survive they will have to take it, or die trying.
So we will be faced with protecting our borders from millions of needs from people who have no alternative or choice but to attack us. And then our innocent families are brought into the mix. And that I do care about.
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