Gigafactory

You might remember from the movie Contact when John Hurt, as billionaire businessman S.R. Hadden refers to the immense machine(s) in the movie, says: "Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" Well it looks like Elon has the cojones to do it for real...

Tesla has said it needs to make a decision on battery factory location this year in order for it to be completed on time. The Texas legislature doesn't meet again until January 2015, so Tesla wasn't going to be able to use the lure of the gigafactory to encourage Texas legislators to do the...

There is already good discussion about the giga-factory elsewhere. I wanted to stimulate a back-and-forth about the Tesla I envision existing in 2020 and a sort of gap analysis I performed in my head and am only now writing down: 2020 Assumptions: 1. Tesla makes 500,000 to 700,000 cars in...

How would you use the information to invest in the area and monetize this information? I thought this would be a fun topic and I would love to hear thoughts and idea. Would you buy real estate in the area? Open a franchise? Do nothing? I honestly cant remember hearing about something this...

San Antonio in play for Giga Factory

San Antonio in Play for Giga Factory While Panasonic may be waffling, San Antonio is not. Local leaders entertained Tesla executives yesterday and pitched the positives of a San Antonio Giga Factory. The story is from the San Antonio Express-News today. San Antonio's excellent workforce, low...

Republican Arizona state senators have endorsed and passed a bill allowing direct sales by Tesla: Arizona bill would allow Tesla to skip dealers Tesla Sales to Be Legalized in Arizona? Is the catalyst the Gigafactory or Christie's folly or both? Either way this may be a trend because in...

Vote! Poll: Which Finalist State Should Tesla Pick for the Gigafactory?

Tesla has named Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada as the finalists for the Gigafactory location. Which do you think they should choose?

The Economist just posted an article in response to the Morgan Stanley upgrade, praise by reviewers, and the Gigafactory announcement: Electric cars: Fully charged | The Economist

Ambitious plan. But only a 30% reduction in price. Wonder where this leaves us Roadster owners with battery upgrades: http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/gigafactory.pdf

Op de Tesla Blog wordt de Gigafactory nu aangekondigd: Meer details hier: http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/gigafactory.pdf Behoorlijk indrukwekkende plannen! - - - Updated - - - En Tesla gaat $1.6 miljard financieren via convertable notes...

Tesla is to have a big Gigafactory announcement sometime this week. I put all I could find about it, plus some location rumors (Nevada!) in a post on AutoblogGreen. So far, the only thread for the Gigafactory is one in Investor Discussions related, of course, to the investment opportunities...

Tesla's future rides on a massive battery plant - Feb. 22, 2014

​I will be live blogging the conference call at 230PM PST. If you have any thoughts or suggestions before we go live, please post them now. Here is the link to audio: Tesla - Events Presentations LINK TO REPORT...

Just throwing an idea out there. The problem as I see it right now is this: Tesla needs "giga" battery factories to make Gen III possible. However Tesla doesn't want to commit to any one battery producer so that they can always pick and choose the best battery technology for the best price as...