California Tesla Sedan Factory: Where?

SteveF · Mar 22, 2009

TEG said:
Stay in the SF bay area please!

Yeah, that's my vote too, but you know the decision will be based on where they can get the best deal. And since Elon lives in SoCal, and SpaceX is there, locating the Tesla plant there would allow him to have easy and frequent access. You know that will play a part in the decision.

vfx · Mar 22, 2009

Come to sunny Southern California!

SteveF · Mar 22, 2009

Now that's just unfair competition.

TEG · Mar 22, 2009

Reminds me of this (where should they go?):

(This is the version with the smaller "bump map")

vfx · Mar 22, 2009

TEG said:
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Post Disneyfication

TEG · Mar 26, 2009

Uh oh for NorCal fans:
S Is For Stunner: Tesla Reveals New Model S | Autopia from Wired.com

... when it starts rolling off a Southern California assembly line by the third quarter of 2011.

TEG · Mar 26, 2009

Tesla Model S Sedan Concept: $49,900 Seven-Seater Electric To Hit Streets In 2011

...The Tesla Model S will be built in Southern California, while the drive train is manufactured in San Jose...

dpeilow · Mar 27, 2009

Tesla Motors plans to build Model S all-electric sedan in Southland - Los Angeles Times

doug · Mar 27, 2009

Yes, I spoke with Mike Donoughe and he said they'd do manufacturing in Southern California.

malcolm · Apr 28, 2009

More speculation...

Tesla Motors buying Long Beach Boeing building?

Kevin Harney · Apr 28, 2009

BB I saw your reply to Evie and it was good. I simply could not resist replying this morning I guess I was just to agitated to let it go. I hope that I was not too harsh on her .....

Xn0r · Jun 9, 2009

I hope they put it in Santa Clara. Augustine drive is only about 3-4 miles from where I live. The old Applied campus is right across Bowers from the JITB and McDs where I go to get some fast food once in a while.

xcelero.ii · Jun 12, 2009

Xn0r said:
I hope they put it in Santa Clara. Augustine drive is only about 3-4 miles from where I live. The old Applied campus is right across Bowers from the JITB and McDs where I go to get some fast food once in a while.

Is the bay area completely out? Do any possibilities still exist?

dpeilow · Jul 1, 2009

SF Gate Story

Ideal occupants: How about Tesla Motors Inc. moving into the space soon to be vacated by GM at the Nummi plant in Fremont? Think of the convenience, the money saved, not to mention its suitability as a metaphor for America's changing auto industry. And to Bay Area loyalists, it sure beats Southern California, where Tesla is currently planning to build a plant from scratch.

Given its size and structure, Nummi might not be the ideal fit, said Tesla spokeswoman Rachel Konrad, who has "heard from virtually every real estate developer in the state" since Tesla got $465 million in government money, much of which will go toward a manufacturing plant for its all-electric sedan.

She promises to call us if she hears from the folks at Nummi.

TEG · Jul 1, 2009

Yeah, I had been thinking about that too.

Although GM is leaving, I don't think Toyota plans to stop using the place.
In fact, I read somewhere that Toyota might start building the Prius there.
So, Toyota may already have plans for the space that GM is giving up.

Serge · Jul 1, 2009

TEG said:
In fact, I read somewhere that Toyota might start building the Prius there.

That would be a great development. From what I read on ABG , these are "rumors" at this point, but hopefully grounded in reality somewhat.

TEG · Jul 1, 2009

There were on again / off again rumors of a NUMMI Prius swirling around last year.

Toyota may produce Prius in California with GM
Toyota decides Nummi will not build Prius now

Still seemingly undecided recently:
No decision made on whether Fremont's NUMMI will build Toyota Prius - 6/18/09 - San Francisco News - abc7news.com

...
NUMMI management was guarded in a statement it issued on Thursday, saying it will focus on building high quality vehicles and work on lowering its costs while GM and Toyota discuss NUMMI's future direction.
That future may or may not include production of the Toyota Prius, the carmaker's best seller. It appears that decision is still up in the air.
"You hope it still might happen?" said Moneyscope reporter David Louie.
"Of course, who wouldn't?" said assembly line worker Chuck Askew...

TEG · Jul 10, 2009

Toyota considering shutdown of NUMMI plant - Inside Bay Area

vfx · Jul 11, 2009

TEG said:
Toyota considering shutdown of NUMMI plant - Inside Bay Area

Looks like TEG has put on an incredible amount of weight!

dpeilow · Jul 15, 2009

Voros: Logic should steer Tesla to NUMMI

Take for instance the fissure that ripped through the Bay Area's manufacturing base Friday when Toyota issued a thinly disguised "Dear John" letter prefacing its departure from the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont and its 4,700 jobs.

...

Tesla could save one of the last bastions of industrial production in the Bay Area, and the company has $450 million in a taxpayer-funded loan to do it.

...

Forming a production partnership with Toyota or even buying the entire factory, which had a recent capitalization value of $331 million, serves the public interest.

A ready-and-waiting auto production site with 5 million square feet would save taxpayer money — as opposed to starting a factory from scratch — and would save thousands of jobs.

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