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As expected, Tesla Motors announced yesterday afternoon that it would build its first battery gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada. The electric-car maker released platitudinous statements from CEO Elon Musk, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, and state Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick. Much of the business press treated it purely as an economic development story. DON'T MISS: Tesla Gigafactory Going To Nevada, Apparently (First One, Anyhow) But the Reno Gazette-Journal offered a slightly different angle, one you might call "human interest," or the intersection of zero-emission green transport with...
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Electric-Car Battery Use: Already Higher Than Hybrids' Total?
You see a lot in the press these days about the low sales of plug-in electric cars. While deliveries have risen every year--and have outpaced hybrid sales at the same point after launch--electric cars clearly remain only a tiny piece of the global car market today. But those low sales nonetheless...
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Tesla Gigafactory Going To Nevada, Apparently (First One, Anyhow)
A press conference to be held this afternoon may answer one of the major questions for the future of electric-car maker Tesla Motors: Where will it locate its gigafactory? The answer appears to be Nevada. The office of state governor Brian Sandoval said he would make a "major economic development...
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'Tesla Hunger Games': Are States In 'Race To Bottom' For Gigafactory?
Analysts criticize the competition for Tesla's battery Gigafactory.
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Tesla's Battery Gigafactory May Achieve Nirvana: $100 Per Kilowatt-Hour, Report Says
Many within the electric car industry believe that $100 per kilowatt-hour will be the tipping point for electric-car batteries. It is the point at which electric vehicles will be able to compete directly with internal combustion vehicles on price, and therefore a major step in boosting sales...
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Tesla Battery Gigafactory: Speed, Incentives, Power-Line Proximity Crucial
States are competing for Tesla's massive lithium-ion cell factory, but there isn't a definite leader yet.
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The Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors seems to be in the news almost every day. Over the last two weeks, the company faced fallout over glitches in early Model S cars, and upgraded its powertrain warranty. It also turned the screws on states competing for its multibillion-dollar battery gigafactory. The company even worked on hiring hackers, to keep its future cars secure. This is Green Car Reports' video news for the weeks of August 11 and 18, 2014--and this time, we're all about Tesla. The quality and reliability of the Tesla Model S were front and center, with Consumer Reports...
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Tesla Gigafactory: CA Could Waive Environmental Rules To Get It: Report
California may waive environmental regulations to attract Tesla's Gigafactory.
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Tesla Needs More Office Space Too (It's Not Just The Gigafactory)
It wasn't so long ago--not quite four years, actually--that Tesla's new headquarters and office complex in the foothills of Palo Alto, California, seemed a big and audacious gamble. My, how times change. With its factory in nearby Fremont cranking out several hundred Model S electric cars a week...
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Tesla: 8,763 Cars Built, 7,579 Sold, 'Potential' Nevada Gigafactory Ground Broken: Q2 Earnings Report
Tesla Motors built 8,763 Model S electric cars and delivered 7,579 of them to customers during the second quarter, according to just-released second-quarter results. It expects to build about 9,000 cars this quarter, and deliver 7,800, largely due to a two-week production shutdown for retooling at...
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Tesla, Panasonic Sign Gigafactory Pact; Nevada Site Work Already Underway?
Now it's official: Panasonic and Tesla Motors will build the "gigafactory," a huge lithium-ion cell fabrication and battery-pack production facility in the western United States. Today Tesla will report its second-quarter earnings after the market closes, and CEO Elon Musk was bound to face...
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Tesla And Panasonic Reach Agreement On Gigafactory Project: Report
Panasonic will reportedly invest funds and provide equipment for the massive lithium-ion cell factory.
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When he's not running electric-car startup Tesla Motors, its CEO Elon Musk has a couple of other jobs on the side. In fact, he's not only involved in CEO of one startup, but three--the other two being SpaceX (privately-funded rockets) and Solar City (solar-panel leasing), where he's chairman of the board. Solar City hit the news last week when it announced it would buy Silevo, a startup maker of high-quality solar cell modules. That closely held startup is based in Fremont, California, the very same Silicon Valley city where Tesla's Model S assembly plant is located. As reported in The Wall...
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Tesla Sales On Target, Gigafactory Groundbreaking Next Month: FINAL UPDATE
Tesla Motors released its first-quarter earnings this afternoon, logging revenue of $713 million on deliveries of 6,457 Model S electric cars. That's essentially the number it had said it would sell in the quarter, but the total is slightly down from the record 6,892 sold in the prior quarter. It...
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Tesla Gigafactory Site Choice Due Soon--Or, Maybe Two Sites
Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't just planning one site for the company's future battery gigafactory--he's actually looking at two. As a way of avoiding "last minute issues" on a possible site for the factory, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will break ground at two sites, reports Bloomberg. Tesla announced its...
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Tesla Gigafactory Seeks North American Raw Materials To Cut Pollution
There is no such thing as a truly green car. All cars require raw materials and energy to produce, use energy during their time as transport, and require energy to recycle--the components that can be recycled, at least. To mitigate such pollution issues and increase supply chain transparency, Tesla...
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Tesla Gigafactory Faces Skepticism From Panasonic, Analysts
Elon Musk, CEO of startup electric-car maker Tesla Motors, is no doubt used to skepticism. Now he faces new doubts over the company's plans for a massive "gigafactory" costing as much as $5 billion to manufacture more lithium-ion cells than any other plant in the world. DON'T MISS: Tesla's...
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Good News For Tesla: AZ Bill Would Legalize Direct Sales As State Angles For Gigafactory
When the possibility of new jobs clashes with the desires of powerful campaign contributors, sometimes jobs can take priority. That may be what's happening in Arizona, where a new bill in the state legislature would legalize the direct-sales model of electric-car maker Tesla Motors--to the intense...
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Tucson wants to be the home of Tesla Motors' massive lithium-ion battery cell factory.
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Where Should Tesla Put Its Battery Gigafactory? Reader Poll
When electric-car maker Tesla Motors released more information about its planned "gigafactory" to produce lithium-ion battery cells in the U.S., it revealed the four states it's considering as plant locations. They are Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas, all of which are shown as candidate...
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Tesla's Lithium-Ion Battery Gigafactory: What You Need To Know
This afternoon, Tesla Motors released details on its proposed "Gigafactory" to build lithium-ion cells for its future electric cars. To provide enough cell capacity to build a projected 500,000 electric vehicles in the year 2020, Tesla would require more cells than last year's entire global...
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Why A Gigafactory? Tesla Used 1/3 Of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year
The 210,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold around the world last year used a lot of lithium-ion batteries. But if startup automaker Tesla Motors has its way, it will soon need as many lithium-ion cells (of the 18650 format it uses) as are now built worldwide. That's why the company plans to release...
Matthew Klippenstein