By Harvey Wasserman and Tim Judson Elon Musk’s SolarCity is completing the construction of its “Buffalo Billion” Gigafactory for photovoltaic (PV) cells near the Niagara River in Buffalo, New York. It will soon put 500 New Yorkers to work inside the 1.2 million-square-foot facility with another 700 nearby, ramping up to nearly 3,000 over the […]
Shareholders approved the $2.6 billion bid by Tesla Motors to buy SolarCity, paving the way for the clean energy giant to become a one-stop shop for electric vehicles, rooftop solar and energy storage. Vote tally shows ~85% of unaffiliated shareholders in favor of the Tesla/SolarCity merger! Thanks for believing. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, […]
Elon Musk doesn’t just want to put solar tiles on top of your house, he also wants to put them on top of your car. How @ElonMusk and @TeslaMotors Can Save the World https://t.co/K3VC2RSylq @solarcity @mzjacobson @billmckibben @NaomiAKlein @BillNye @NRDC — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) October 31, 2016 According to Futurism, shortly after the enigmatic Tesla CEO […]
Elon Musk unveiled solar-powered roof tiles and an upgraded PowerWall battery as he prepares for Tesla’s $2.2 billion takeover of SolarCity. During a press event at Universal Studios in LA, Musk announced that Tesla will build and sell its own line of solar panels with integrated batteries. “We’re reaching record CO2 levels,” Musk said as […]
Here’s another thing that Elon Musk is on the verge of disrupting: Ride-sharing. The Tesla CEO is already shaking up the global automobile industry with his fleet of electric cars, but now he’s taking aim at ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft by creating his own car-sharing network—the so-called “Tesla Network.” Elon Musk’s new […]
Airbnb hosts now have a major incentive to go solar. The home-sharing giant and SolarCity announced a new promotion today that will offer hosts up to $1,000 cash back if they install the solar company’s panels. SolarCity The rebate is available to Airbnb hosts in the 19 states where SolarCity currently operates. Homeowners can choose […]
Elon Musk has snapped back at major coal-mining boss Robert Murray on Twitter, calling the Murray Energy Corp. CEO a “fraud” for denying climate change. In Elon Musk’s “Master Plan Part Deux,” he writes, “Given that we must get off fossil fuels anyway and that virtually all scientists agree that dramatically increasing atmospheric and oceanic […]
With Tesla’s historic acquisition of SolarCity now pending, Elon Musk has announced two new solar products, including one that could disrupt the roofing industry. Tesla and SolarCity could change the roofing industrySolarCity Twitter As Electrek reported, during a conference call with investors Tuesday, Musk and SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive said they were working on creating […]
The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled against a ballot referendum, which could have rolled back a controversial December 2015 regulator decision that lowered payments to rooftop solar customers. The ruling means that the referendum will not be voted on by the public in November. Backed by Elon Musk‘s SolarCity, the referendum was challenged in court […]