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Elon Musk: Tesla to Build World’s Largest Lithium Ion Battery

Elon Musk: Tesla to Build World’s Largest Lithium Ion Battery

Tesla has been awarded a contract to install the world’s largest lithium ion battery. Under the agreement, the company will build the system within 100 days or else it’s free—a promise CEO Elon Musk famously made in March to help solve South Australia’s energy woes. The billionaire entrepreneur spoke about the technology to reporters in […]

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    4 Dying Nuke Plants vs. Fleet of Gigafactories: Which Will Gov. Cuomo Choose?

    4 Dying Nuke Plants vs. Fleet of Gigafactories: Which Will Gov. Cuomo Choose?

    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 […]

    Elon Musk Tweets Offer to Fix Australia’s Energy Crisis in 100 Days

    Elon Musk Tweets Offer to Fix Australia’s Energy Crisis in 100 Days

    Tesla boss and prolific tweeter Elon Musk has made an audacious bet to solve South Australia’s energy woes by building a 100-megawatt battery storage farm. If the system is not operational in 100 days, the AUD$33 million (USD$25 million) technology will be provided for free. It all started on Thursday when Atlassian CEO and Australian […]

    New Solar Farm Powers Hawaii at Night

    New Solar Farm Powers Hawaii at Night

    Tesla unveiled a new 13MW solar farm on the Hawaiian island of Kauai Wednesday, bringing the state closer to its ambitious goal of sourcing 100 percent renewables by 2045. States Lead the Way Toward 100% Renewable Energy https://t.co/OoGzs2UFdd (@ecowatch) #ReadyFor100 — Sierra Club (@SierraClub) February 24, 2017 The farm includes nearly 300 Tesla Powerpack batteries, […]

    SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists to the Moon in 2018

    SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists to the Moon in 2018

    By Sydney Robinson Private space exploration company SpaceX has announced its most ambitious mission yet—a plan to orbit the moon in 2018. The company headed by scientific and tech mind Elon Musk claims that their mission is on-target, including having recruited two astronauts that have elected—and paid a hefty chunk of change—to have the privilege […]

    Why You Can’t Buy a Tesla in These 6 States

    Why You Can’t Buy a Tesla in These 6 States

    By Daniel Gatti The state of Connecticut is a progressive state, with a strong track record of support for laws and policies that will reduce global warming emissions and a goal of putting more than 150,000 electric vehicles (EV) on the road by 2025. Given the policy commitments of the state of Connecticut, one might […]

    3 More Gigafactories Coming Soon to ‘Change the Way the World Uses Energy’

    3 More Gigafactories Coming Soon to ‘Change the Way the World Uses Energy’

    At the grand opening of Tesla’s enormous Gigafactory in July, CEO Elon Musk said he wants to build Gigafactories on several continents. He told BBC he wanted a factory “in Europe, in India, in China … ultimately, wherever there is a huge amount of demand for the end product.” Well, it looks like Musk’s factory-building […]

    Tesla, Patagonia Join Growing Resistance Against Trump

    Tesla, Patagonia Join Growing Resistance Against Trump

    U.S. companies are taking a stand in these politically chaotic times. So far, 127 technology firms are firing back at President Donald Trump‘s travel ban affecting immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. Facebook, Apple and Google are leading the fight against Trump's immigration ban https://t.co/6lcwkRfP2a pic.twitter.com/MoNxOmRmLP — Forbes (@Forbes) February 6, 2017 The movement […]

    Tesla Unveils World’s Largest Battery Storage Plant to Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels

    Tesla Unveils World’s Largest Battery Storage Plant to Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels

    In an effort to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, Tesla and Southern California Edison have unveiled a massive battery storage facility at the utility’s Mira Loma substation in Ontario, California. https://twitter.com/SCE/status/826211509948784640 The project—which is being described as the largest lithium-ion battery storage project in the world—consists of 396 stacks of Tesla Powerpack units spread […]