The new factory will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup and will be a second U.S. manufacturing site for the Model Y small SUV, largely for distribution to the East Coast. — AP News
According to AP News, the factory will be built on 2,100 acres near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, making it the company's largest auto assembly plant. The plant will be approximately 4 million square feet and has already begun construction.
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I'm thinking "Back to the Future" reboot. Who's with me?
it looks like they forgot to design the body
"... will get more than $60million in tax breaks from the county and a local school district over the next decade."
Because for Elon welfare is cool if you're rich but bad if you're poor. <shrug emoji>
no Elon is a bad ass and the rest of you sheap, including you...stop giving in to weakness dear...
semi-serious
sheap, you say? shear lunacy.
good one /\...I can't say I like listening to Eric Weinstein much, even that bit was painful, but he does have a point about the brain washing an clickish nature of academia...look at architecture education for a start.
Don't be so hard on him Donna, poor Elon might be a billionaire, but he can't seem to run any financially successful businesses and probably needs all the help he can get... That's the badass capitalist way I hear.
the bad assness is what he is doing with money he may even be loosing, which would be my formal disagreement with Donna's post...and I'm sure she can defend herself against my rants, she has many times ;)
some ideas are more important than people (yes I'm an architect).
I am not defending anyone, I like the stuff he's doing, but I don't see why he needs to be given crazy tax breaks .The government shouldn't be propping up his business with the local economy. What's so special about that?
What economy should the government prop up? Given that NASA is not the NASA of the past, is it such a bad thing to prop up a private business like NASA? The government propped up combustion engines long enough, bail-outs for GM who had an electric car program nearly 30 years ago, but decided gas guzzling pick-up trucks and SUV's were a better market. Yes, give Tesla tax breaks. California dropped the ball on this one. Prioritize those who do better if not the best over those who need propping up to survive..... If Fedex and UPS and DHL etc... could put the post office completely out of business, I'm all for it. Don't prop things that don't work.
The problem isn't so much that Tesla is getting tax breaks but that Tesla is taking tax breaks while Elon Musk publicly rails against gov't assistance.
The Toyota plant near me is built on 3K acres and pretty sure GF Reno is similar sized if not larger. Went there once and you could barely see the plant from the security gate... There were wild horses visible from the front lobby
The real question I have; how long before Musk realizes he's going to need his own military to defend him, or is he already working on that scenario?
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