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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. The Tesla Gigafactory will use geothermal and wind power, too. That’s 1 million times more than the kWh measurements we normally see. So it’s a lot of energy. Where is it? I know, right? Not in the real world.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

February 17, 2009 10:39 am Link I think within a very short time the need for electricity will stabilize because of all the changes by conservation, minimal population growth in the industrialized countries, and better transmission from power sources. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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