Posted on 07/29/2014 7:51:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Based on reports that have emerged over the past few weeks, it looks like California is back in the running as a location for Tesla's Gigfactory — a massive facility that will build the advanced lithium-ion batteries needed to get the electric carmaker to the next level.
Nevada, Texas, New Mexico — these were the states that appeared to be in a better position to become the Gigafactory's home than California.
But there's been some chatter about Elon Musk and his company potentially taking over an old U.S. Navy facility near San Francisco. And now, according to the Los Angeles Times' Marc Lifsher, the Northern California city of Stockton could also be a candidate.
It's "shaping up as a leading in-state contender," Lifsher wrote.
The arrival of a $5-billion new-economy manufacturing hub, along with its projected 6,000-plus jobs, would be just what the doctor ordered for Stockton. The city, about an hour's drive northeast of Tesla's Fremont, Calif. assembly line, went bankrupt in 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Sorry, you are confused. Here in California if you label anything green (or marijuana) the normal EPA Nazi's don't care. You could be poring hydrochloric acid into the water supply of a community or erecting hundreds of endangered bird species killing windmills but if you call yourself “green” or “natural”, well then my friend, you get a pass
They outgrew it with the rise in demand for their product.
Sounds scary to me. The enviros will never allow it.
“$85K for a car that,with a stiff tailwind,might be able to go 200 miles on a charge and then must stop for hours for another charge? Gimme a break.For much less than half that I have a diesel that can go 700 miles (at 70mph) between “charges” and then can stop at any one of 30,000 “recharging” stations for a 5 minute “recharge”.Then I’m off for another 700 miles. “
On one level, I am with you. My driving needs mandate a range and refueling time that the Tesla doesn’t meet. That said, here in the Bay Area, Teslas are all over the place, because for the hoy paloy that buy them, they offer luxury transportation to and from the office. They are replacing the BMW’s and Merc’s here for a lot of execs. I live in an East Bay “bedroom community,”and I could drive downtown right now and see at least one or two of them on the streets, and that’s when the menfolk have already driven theirs to SF or the Silicon Valley to work. BTW, the fit and finish on the Tesla is as good as or better than any car you can buy today and they are all aluminum. When will you see the US automakers switch to aluminum to save weight? Probably never!
Imagine the massive pollution these batteries will cause.
See Canada city of Sudbury wasteland that has a battery company polluting everything.
Toyota Prius pollution.
http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/f22/toyota-factory-turns-landscape-arid-wasteland-11994/
How hybrid cars pollute
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/does-hybrid-car-production-waste-offset-hybrid-benefits1.htm
Hummer beats a hybrid when it comes to ‘going green.
http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/7636701.html
States do favorable tax deals all the time to attract industry. Alabama did for Boeing and Mercedes. South Carolina did for BMW. Georgia did for Kia.
Tax abatments for industry is one thing.
Fake electric car credits and cap and trade is something else.
Pretty sure they are real credits... As with all tax credits, they are done to drive behavior. Mortgage tax credit, child care tax credit, energy efficient electric water heaters, windows, etc. etc. etc. Nothing new here.
Is that in Nine Mile Point, CA?
My comments may not apply to some but they certainly apply to me.At least 90% of my miles are driven at 70mph and my typical trip (which I make often) is 70 miles.However,it's not unusual for me to drive I-90/I-91 and I-95 to NYC...a trip of about 200 miles.
To me buying an $85K car mainly for a 10 mile round trip to the office is silly.
Who collected the data for that slick chart?
And how was it collected? Data recorders or surveys?
I agree if that’s the way Californians want to have their laws, so be it.
But $130 million of Tesla’s income in 2013 was “greenmail” payments from other companies that sell non-electric vehicles in California.
From Census Bureau Travel and Demographics Study
I never looked at it like that...but, that sounds par for the course out there. Such a pretty state, too.
Thanks. Can I then assume the data are derived from survey questions, yes?
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