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Australia. Please. We have the land, we have the lithium, we have the sunshine and we have a massive car market - 1.2 million cars sold in 2016. We also have
by D_Alex 10y ago
Australia. Please.
We have the land, we have the lithium, we have the sunshine and we have a massive car market - 1.2 million cars sold in 2016.
We also have a good automotive manufacturing base... about to go into idle mode. Aussie federal and state governments have been very willing to support local manufacturing, and I'm sure they'd love to hear from Tesla.
- oska 10y agoI was going to suggest Australia as a possible contender for the 5th factory however while we have some supportive state governments we also have an incredibly unsupportive federal government that is hostile to electric vehicles and renewable energy and storage. And I think that's obvious to anyone looking on from outside. So while this current federal government is in power it's one more opportunity we're going to miss (and be left behind on).
- taneq 10y agoWe also have an absolute ton of solar power on very cheap land, and our power grid is in a death spiral to the point where going off-grid is going to be a clear financial win in the next 10 years. By the time a new factory is up and running, this is gonna be a really good market for battery storage.
- justin66 10y agoAre the same people who tend to be hostile to electric vehicles and renewables friendly to mining? Parking a gigafactory near the nation's lithium might persuade a lot of people to take a chance on Tesla.