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15 essential facts and figures about the Tesla Gigafactory

Green Authority

Sparks, Nevada. An electric power storage company setting up in a place called Sparks just cannot happen. It’s a modular building made of four different parts that can flex and withstand a natural disaster, or maybe a nuclear strike if the power company gets really mad. So it’s a lot of energy. Where is it? I know, right?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Such cities would become self-contained units, their buildings gleaning energy from the powerful weather systems sweeping across their roofs and feeding it down to homes below and vehicles in the streets. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. The elegance of that is wonderful.

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