I believe you got it backwards. California was never on the list so they were going to lower environmental rules to lure Tesla back. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1093814_tesla-gigafactory-ca-could-waive-environmental-rules-to-get-it-report
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2019, at 11:47 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190819/331bd8ba/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
