Tesla Gigafactory energy: no solar panels yet, but no natural gas at all

Tour of Tesla battery gigafactory for invited owners, Reno, Nevada, July 2016

Tesla has officially opened its lithium-ion battery cell “gigafactory,” but the company still has substantial work to do. It must ramp up cell production in order to help meet CEO Elon Musk’s goal of producing 500,000 electric cars per year by 2018—and use renewable-energy sources to do it. The original renderings renderings of the… …read more