IMO what Auto Dealers win is not a big deal ...
When there are Million$ being spent for a new plant, U.S. politicians
come out of the woodwork ...
A Tesla Plant would not raise any Auto Dealers Association's ire, but
would bring in jobs, jobs, jobs for the state that lands the deal ...
something every politician loves to tout come election time ...
Auto Dealers Associations in different states have won some and lost
some ground. None of which has stopped the consumer from getting their
hands on a Tesla EV, or getting it serviced/repaired. It is just to easy
to dance around these old-school dealerships' rules (out-of-date,
out-of-touch, out-of-mind, ... ).
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014, at 10:33 AM, robert winfield wrote:
>
> If Arizona is "Really" serious about wanting the gigafactory, the
> lawmakers should monitor the financial newswires
>
> ------------------------------------snip-----------------------------------
> "While New Jersey is the third state to ban direct sales of Tesla's
> vehicles, we find it curious Arizona and Texas are both competing to host
> the company's Giga Factory, despite banning Tesla's direct sales model.
> The various state officials asking us through intermediaries to explain
> how to improve their competitiveness in the process may want to look at
> how amenable their rules are for Tesla's sales model,"
> ---------------------------------snip---------------------------------
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 3/12/14, brucedp5 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Tucson going after Tesla's 6,500 new jobs
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 3:55 AM
>
>
>
>
> http://azstarnet.com/business/local/tucson-going-after-tesla-s-new-jobs/article_8780e877-50d4-5e02-b334-3cbc671aa521.html
> Tucson going after Tesla's 6,500 new jobs
> Mar. 9, 2014 By Gabriela Rico
>
> [image] FILE - This June 22, 2012 file photo shows a Tesla
> Model S outside
> the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. The Tesla Model S
> electric sedan is
> Consumer Reports’ top pick in this year’s automotive
> survey. (AP Photo/Paul
> Sakuma, File)
>
> The city of Tucson has made a formal proposal to become the
> home of a $5
> billion “gigafactory” for lithium-ion batteries for
> electric cars.
>
> Tesla Motors Inc.’s planned 10 million-square-foot plant
> would need up to
> 1,000 acres of land and create about 6,500 jobs.
>
> Mayor Jonathan Rothschild said land within the city has been
> identified with
> access to the Union Pacific mainline and the interstates.
>
> He also said the city has tax incentives to add to whatever
> tax incentives
> are offered by the Arizona Commerce Authority to lure Tesla
> to the state.
>
> Rothschild said he could not disclose any other information
> on the city’s
> proposal.
>
> “But I can say I look forward to meeting with Tesla
> officials and impressing
> them with what we have to offer,” he said. “Tesla’s
> founder wants to put men
> on Mars and power the world with solar. All our efforts in
> the state ought
> to be to bring Tesla to Tucson.”
>
> “We are the home to the Mars exploratory mission at the
> University of
> Arizona and known nationally as the Solar City,”
> Rothschild said. “I think
> Tesla will feel right at home in Tucson.”
>
> Aside from Arizona, Tesla is looking at sites in Nevada, New
> Mexico and
> Texas for the plant, the company has said.
>
> Meanwhile, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith — who is running for
> governor — announced
> that he had sent Tesla CEO Elon Musk an invitation to visit
> Arizona.
>
> “Arizona is on the short list for electric-car maker Tesla
> Motors’ $5
> billion-dollar battery plant along with 6,500 high-value
> jobs,” Smith wrote
> in an email from his campaign, announcing the invitation.
> “The move would
> complement Arizona’s aggressive push to make manufacturing
> a central
> component of our growing economy.”
>
> While officials from the three other states in the running
> for the Tesla
> plant have all made statements about Tesla, this is the
> first time officials
> in Arizona have spoken about the state being considered.
>
> “We are proud to hear that Arizona is among the
> finalists,” the letter to
> Musk said. “Tesla can join companies such as Intel,
> Boeing, Apple, Raytheon
> and Honeywell that have chosen to locate a substantial
> manufacturing
> presence in our state.”
>
> The letter goes on to say Arizona has a skilled workforce,
> business-friendly
> tax structure and quality education.
>
> “Regardless of where you might choose to locate within
> Arizona, you can be
> assured that infrastructure will be available to meet your
> needs,” it reads.
>
> Aside from Smith, the current president of the U.S.
> Conference of Mayors,
> the letter was co-signed by Avondale Mayor Marie Lopez
> Rogers, immediate
> past president of the National League of Cities.
>
> It was written on Maricopa Association of Government
> letterhead.
>
> In response to emailed questions, CEO of Tucson Regional
> Economic
> Opportunities Inc. Joe Snell wrote: “We believe that
> Southern Arizona is an
> ideal fit for Tesla’s new gigafactory.”
>
> The key things Tesla has said it needs in a new site are
> “innovative
> manufacturing, reduction of logistics waste, optimization of
> co-located
> processes and reduced overhead.”
>
> Analysts commenting to news outlets in the three other
> states have said a
> unique-approach proposal would get Tesla’s attention.
>
> One unique approach is a program called Global Advantage.
>
> It is a partnership between the University of Arizona Tech
> Parks and The
> Offshore Group that offers research and development at the
> tech park with
> manufacturing capabilities in Sonora. The program was
> recently endorsed by
> the governors of Sonora and Arizona.
>
> “Global Advantage and the region Arizona-Sonora can bring
> a competitive
> advantage to Tesla,” said Offshore President Luis Felipe
> Seldner III. “This
> program distinguishes our region from the states we are
> competing with.”
>
> Offshore owns and operates large industrial parks in Guaymas
> and Empalme,
> Sonora, and already has clients who are suppliers to Tesla,
> he said.
>
> Seldner said what Telsa wants is available through this
> program — the
> expertise from the University of Arizona, solar and
> renewable energy
> initiatives in the region, simplified logistics and access
> to every market
> by road, rail and sea through the Port of Guaymas.
>
> “We have exactly what Tesla is looking for,” Seldner
> said.
>
> He said the Arizona Commerce Authority — which has taken
> the lead on wooing
> Tesla — has not approached Global Advantage about
> submitting a proposal.
>
> Commerce Authority’s CEO Sandra Watson could not be
> reached for comment.
>
> Tesla said it plans to directly invest $2 billion in the new
> plant, with the
> rest of the $5 billion coming from its partners.
>
> A company timeline shows Tesla wants to pick the site this
> year, construct
> the facility in 2015 and begin production by 2017.
>
> Last week, the company announced plans to add 30 new service
> centers and
> stores in Europe. The “supercharger” locations will let
> Tesla’s Model S cars
> travel longer distances, officials said.
>
> Shares of Tesla stock are up around 600 percent in the past
> year. A recent
> analysis by Bloomberg News said the company is “the
> highest-flying
> automobile stock in at least two decades.”
>
> Musk, the company founder, was born in South Africa and
> became a millionaire
> in his late twenties when he sold his company Zip2 to Compaq
> Computers. He
> helped launch PayPal in 2000, founded Space Explorations
> Technologies Corp.
> in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003.
>
> In 2012, Musk launched the first commercial vehicle to the
> International
> Space Station.
> [© 2014 Arizona Daily Star]
>
>
>
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