[Graybeard58]

I will never, not ever, buy an electric or hybrid vehicle. If someone gave me one, I’d sell it immediately - for scrap, if necessary.

[Paladin2]

They are going to need more di-lithium crystals.

[Ken522]

ANOTHER game-changer???

[Ray76]

>> “net zero energy factory”

Nothing’s free.

[goldstategop]

The website is named Fool.com.

What’s on people’s minds is: is this gold or a fool’s errand?

If any one can make the electric car profitable its Tesla and they’re in it to play big or to go home.

[boycott]

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas is calling Tesla “the most important car company in the world.”

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Then it must be true.

[newfreep]

On board fire extinguisher is an option.

[EagleUSA]

Tesla is far from stupid. They knew they had to get away from the confiscatory taxation and tax-and-spend socialist liberals controlling Taxifornia — it was an easy call to head for Nevada. The money saved or never needed is huge. The liberal fools in the Taxifornia State Legislature are just that, and continue to drive business and tax-paying individuals out of the state.

Nothing new.

[Captain Compassion]

So what is Tesla going when China builds a battery factory their Mao III that uses the same basic battery as the Tesla cars at half the price? Japan? Korea?. How much state and federal help has been given to Tesla? Perhaps another Solyndra here?

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[babygene]

I honestly thought that the GRID couldn’t handle it and with 40% of electrical power coming from coal, it made no sense...

[NoLibZone]

They have a 200 mile claimed range.

Then it takes what an hour to recharge?

[Avid Coug]

The electric energy to run these cars has to come from somewhere. Meanwhile the Bamster is trying to eliminate all coal fired energy plants in the country. How’s that going to work out?

[wetgundog]

Shades of the Deloren Car Company sponsored by taxpayer monies.

Fook Electric cars

[RayChuang88]

One thing that Tesla may have up its sleeve is the possibility by the time the Gigafactory opens, it may be producing a new generation of dry-electrode lithium-ion batteries that use graphene sheets are part of the battery material. That could effectively triple the storage density of the battery pack, and the very idea of going 900 km (559 miles) on a single charge on a future production Tesla Model S or X may not be ridiculously far-fetched.

[Husker24]

If you lived in a city and didn’t travel long distances, this wouldn’t be a bad deal. However, if you live outside the city where it gets very hot and or cold, I can’t see this working barring some type of miracle battery.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

Tesla is a company favored by crony capitalism and sucks at the public teat with the mouth of a Galactic Carp. Sales of individual cars have been subsidized... and they proudly help you get your subsidy on their website. The announced factory will be built with the public's money...

[lacrew]

Tesla hype is akin to Hopium.

[spokeshave]

2017 eh...just in time for the next mini-ice age to kick in.....

Me....I am investing in triple pane windows and adding another layer of insulation to the house.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years

[Fester Chugabrew]

There may be advances in technology around the corner that make personal *ground* transportation over long distances a thing-used-rarely. Something akin to controlled electro-nuclear-magnetic flight. The energy is there. It’s just a matter of harnessing it. It is good to see people pursue alternatives to what we commonly call “fossil fuels,” if only because we are inherently curious, creative, and called to subdue this creation.