[Gaffer]

..... an old U.S. Navy facility near San Francisco...

Moffett Federal Airfield? The old Moffett field? The blimp hangars?

Have they consulted the Google brothers?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Ya, but what about the carbon footprint of this place? Will liberals allow it?

[tennmountainman]

And CA will bankrupt Tesla Battery Factory.

[Red Badger]

Elon, you’re making a huge mistake....................

[DCmarcher-976453]

The pollutants left behind manufacturing will never be allowed to be disposed of in Cali so why build there?

[4rcane]

The recent rumor is that its almost certainly in Nevada. They’ve started breaking ground there already. Nevada plant is close to their CA plant and lithium mines. Right to Work and low taxes and regulation. They likely put the other sites in other states on the back burner for future expansion if needed

[Don Corleone]

But what fish, bird, bug, plant or Native American religious site will be irreparably harmed? The EPA will surely find a way to get their two cents worth in.

[moovova]

Good luck getting thru the environmental permit/code maze.

[ExCTCitizen]

A bankrupt idea for a bankrupt state.

[dila813]

crony capitalism, the policy of failed states where everyone is punished but the favored few.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Grams A]

So why don’t they just use their previous plant?

[Gay State Conservative]

$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.

[Mike Darancette]

will build the advanced lithium-ion batteries

Sounds scary to me. The enviros will never allow it.

[minnesota_bound]

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

[McGruff]

Is that in Nine Mile Point, CA?