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15 essential facts and figures about the Tesla Gigafactory

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Sparks, Nevada. An electric power storage company setting up in a place called Sparks just cannot happen. Giga is actually a real unit of measurement that represents billions and a GWh is a way of saying you’re producing, or spending, one billion watts an hour. 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

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. She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada.