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Licensing the standard has likely been the long-term plan. Since Tesla bought SolarCity and built the gigafactory, Tesla must think of itself as an energy compa
by labster 8y ago
Licensing the standard has likely been the long-term plan. Since Tesla bought SolarCity and built the gigafactory, Tesla must think of itself as an energy company.
- dpkonofa 8y agoI hope so. Someone needs to invent some goddamn self-contained solar covered parking spaces. I live in the Southwest and I can't believe that we're in 2018 and no one is tapping into solar power for everything during the day.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoTesla has always thought of itself as an energy company. Electric cars were to bootstrap battery manufacturing capacity (typically low margin, made high margin by Tesla through selling luxury vehicles). Who would've given Tesla funds (through bonds) to build Gigafactory 1 with no proven demand for those cells produced? It is why teslamotors.com is now tesla.com