San Antonio considered for Tesla Motor's new battery factory!

[tlongII]

I am curious, does anyone know why they call it Tesla Motors?
Is it because the batteries are one of Teslas' many inventions?
Or some other reason?

It's called Tesla because Tesla invented alternating current and it's an electric car.

[xmas1997]

It's called Tesla because Tesla invented alternating current and it's an electric car.

I thought that might be the case.

So where does someone go in San Antonio to buy one?

[Wild Cobra]

It's now down to NV and CA, with ground being cleared in NV.

CA will never get it. Too costly for new business starts. This is probably a game Tesla is playing.

[Wild Cobra]

Why would they be wasting money on site prep if they weren't going to use it?

There could have been contract issues. hard to say.

[Winehole23]

If the technology gets good enough, the traditional car can become history.

if the technology gets good enough, the traditional power plant is in trouble.

“We are going to unveil the Tesla home battery, the consumer battery that would be for use in people’s houses or businesses fairly soon,” Musk said during an earnings conference call in February.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...eries-april-30

[boutons_deux]

ViZn Energy Systems’ Zinc-Iron Flow Battery Commissioned at Randolph-Macon College as Part of Dominion Solar Project

http://www.altenergymag.com/news/201...-project/19688

To charge the 10Ms of EVs, we're going to need huge increases in electrical generation and distribution. That's why red states blocking RETs and wind/solar initiatives to protect the retrograde vested interests is so destructive. Repugs, and their BigCorp paymasters, are the USA's greatest threat.

The inevitable (political,policy) failures of electrical generation and distribution to meet EV demand is why nearly all the BigCar companies are STILL running FCEV projects, where FC breakthroughs (like platinum-free FCs) are also inevitable, soorner rather than later.

Energy storage breakthroughs, grid scale and small scale, will be extremely disruptive, sooner rather than later.

[UZER]

Yeah..just like free agents would "love to play for the spurs."

It's just leverage.

[Mitch]

As a business man, I wouldn't want to bring my endeavors to that creak of a city.

[The Reckoning]

As a business man, I wouldn't want to bring my endeavors to that creak of a city.

creek

[Mitch]

creek

Danke, pleb.

[The Reckoning]

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