Tesla has been granted a total of 153 building permits for the Gigafactory to date, relating to around $1.03 billion in construction costs/work, according to the newest article on the subject from Jack Cookson at BuildZoom.
Entrepreneurs in Lithuania are trying to woo Elon Musk to build the next Gigafactory battery manufacturing facility there. They created a pretend factory in Minecraft and put it on YouTube. The factory would likely create up to 17,000 jobs.
New overhead flyover video of the Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory construction site in Sparks, Nevada, has surfaced. The new video — which originates with a pilot who goes by the name of superOOk on the Tesla Motors subreddit — gives us an up-to-date look at the level of progress on the construction of the $5 billion project.
Among the ~400,000 Tesla Model 3 reservation holders, Tesla decided to have some fun and randomly select 12 to attend the Gigafactory Grand Opening on July 29 in Reno, Nevada. Extending the fun Tesla loves to have with its workers, owners, and even robots, Tesla has named these 12 lucky winners “Golden Ticket Winners” — yep, that’s […]
An analyst at Global Equities Research by the name of Trip Chowdhry has publicly commented that he considers the market value of the Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory to be $50 billion, according to recent reports. Considering that the projected development costs of the Gigafactory total “only” $5 billion, and also that Tesla’s current market capitalization is around […]
One of the keys to good communication, in my eyes, is to open up and talk to people in an honest way as you would a friend. As you’ve probably already read, that’s one of the things that I think makes a lot of people love Elon Musk (one of several things). Still, he surprised […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. The Grand Opening event for the first Tesla Gigafactory will be taking place on July 29 — at the facility location just outside of Reno, Nevada. The news comes to us following the receipt of email invitations sent to Tesla owners who took part in the company’s Referral Program and managed […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. A recent post over at TMC kicked off a worthwhile discussion on the type of cells that will be used in the Model 3. Though it started with an incorrect assumption, it arrived at some fun conclusions. As the primer for the discussion, Elon had mentioned way back in 2012 on the […]
Originally published on TeslaMondo. Here’s a lean version of the Q1 conference call, without all the Hamburger Helper that clogs official transcripts. All quotes are verbatim. Everything else is TeslaMondo interpretation. Analyst: How can tiny Tesla make a profit on Model III under the shadow of big, bovine GM and its Bolt program? Seems impossible. Musk: “We’re highly confident […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. By Mike Barnard Elon Musk has never been accused of dreaming small dreams. Transforming all cars to run on electricity. Colonizing Mars. Even his most ardent supporters were ambivalent about whether Musk could meet these visions. Now he’s massively advanced one of his key strategic milestones related to Tesla. The quarterly shareholder letter‘s first […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. In episode #25 of Cleantech Talk, Matthew Klippenstein and I tackled the recent Tesla financials conference call, Tesla Model 3 ramp plans, Ford’s electrification plans, etc. You can listen to the show via the embedded player below, on iTunes, or on SoundCloud. Or you can download it. Below the embedded player, you can read Matthew’s helpful show notes. […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Like in some previous quarters, I went ahead and put the full recording of the Q1 2016 Tesla financials conference call on YouTube. You can always listen to the conference calls on the Tesla investment portal, but it’s a clunky system and really hard to skip around to the spot you want. […]
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Update: Elon just said seconds ago on the conference call that Tesla aims to become the best manufacturer in the world. The 2nd (or maybe 3rd) major point for me regarding the shareholder letter is that Tesla still has a 2016 production target of 80,000–90,000 for 2016 despite the widely discussed troubles with ramping […]
Motor Trend was recently granted exclusive access to the Tesla Model 3 for a photo session at the under-construction Gigafactory — resulting in some great new daylight images of the much-anticipated electric car. The coverage also makes some interesting points about the current state of the Gigafactory’s construction, and the enormous scale of the lithium-ion […]
We should have 2–3 more stories coming tomorrow regarding Tesla’s* quarterly letter and conference call, which just wrapped up, but here’s one more to close out the night. All in all, Tesla’s reports on what happened in Q4 2015 and 2015 as a whole weren’t huge surprises. Much of the info was already out there, even if not […]
Construction of the Tesla Gigafactory is proceeding at a rapid pace and is, in fact, still ahead of schedule when it comes to being on track to actually produce batteries. This may come as a surprise to many, as one of the consistent themes with Tesla is a tendency to let dates slip. Having said […]
In this 10th and nearly final article pulled from Electric Cars: What Early Adopters & First Followers Want — a new report from CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, and GAS2 — we get to an exciting topic — EV Revolution!! Revolution, baby! I’ve mentioned “EV revolution” a few times already in this report. What am I talking about? By “EV revolution,” I’m referring […]
The topic/title I was given for my presentation at the EV Transportation & Technology Summit was “EV R&D and the Future.” You can jump right into the presentation below. In addition to that, or alternatively, you can read more about the backstory and a summary of the presentation in the text below the video and slides. My […]