The reason they ship it is because either they planned poorly with not enough time for environmental review in California, or they didn’t want to fully disclose the environmental impacts of the plant.
Either way, when they tried and failed to get the legislature to exempt them from environmental review in California, they built the plant in neighboring Nevada. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Aug 18, 2019, at 7:34 PM, Tom Hudson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > >> On 8/18/2019 8:45 AM, Michael Ross via EV wrote: >> I see the naming slipping - Gigafactory in Nevada means a battery plant. In >> Shanghai it is an automobile manufacturing facility. >> >> > The name is NOT "slipping". Like the main Gigafactory in Nevada, Gigafactory > 3 in China will produce battery cells/modules and other items; it just adds > cars to that list. Presumably, like Gigafactory 1, it will build batteries > and motors, and will have the added benefit of being the assembly location > for the Model 3, unlike Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, which has to ship those > components to California for final assembly. I always thought this was an > unfortunate situation, having to ship those critical components hundreds of > miles to Fremont. There has always been talk about doing actual vehicle > assembly at Gigafactory 1 at some point -- would sure make sense to do that, > to simplify the manufacturing logistics, as long as you had the manpower > available -- and they keep enlarging the thing, so I'd expect to see vehicle > assembly there at some point. > > For the China factory, Tesla will circumvent any tariffs and provide a > product that is more appealing to the Chinese car-buying public than a > foreign-made vehicle. Should be interesting to see what happens there, but it > looks like they're on track for their goal of starting production later this > year. > > -Tom > > -- > Thomas Hudson > http://portev.org -- Electric Vehicles, Solar Power & More > http://klanky.com -- Animation Projects > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
