By Gabby Birenbaum The Nevada Independent Tesla intends to invest $3.6 billion in battery and electric semi-truck manufacturing in Sparks, expanding the company’s presence and the clean energy industry in Nevada, the White House said Tuesday. The Sparks plant will ramp up production of the Tesla Semi, a Class 8 semi-truck entirely powered by electricity. CEO Elon Musk … [Read more...]
Tesla Offering Career Paths to Nevada High School Graduates
On Wednesday, September 18, parents, students, and local media gathered at the Tesla Gigafactory on the northeastern end of Sparks to congratulate and welcome the Tesla Manufacturing Development Program Class of 2019 as they begin their new careers at Tesla. Tesla started this program three years ago shortly after it built the Gigafactory in Sparks, contributing a $37.5 … [Read more...]
Tesla wants to cut size of board from 11 directors to 7
Associated Press Tesla plans to cut its board of directors from 11 to seven in a move the electric-car maker says will allow the board to act more nimbly and efficiently. Tesla says the four directors who will depart aren’t leaving because of any disagreement with the company. The board has come under closer scrutiny since August, when CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he had … [Read more...]
Tesla Begins Battery Cell Production at Gigafactory
On the day of the highly-anticipated Tesla Gigafactory investor-only event, Tesla announced on its blog that it was beginning its battery cell production. “Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. At the heart of these products are … [Read more...]
Tesla Expected to Announce Big Plans for 2017 at Wednesday Event
Tesla recently showed drone footage of the construction progress of its Gigafactory in Sparks with the plan to produce at least 500,000 cars a year by 2018. While the main goal of the Gigafactory will be pumping out electric car batteries at record speeds, construction will not be completely finished for at least a few more years. The aerial views of the gigafactory also … [Read more...]
Parsing the paranoia of powerful penny-pinchers
The longer that overlords hold power, the more paranoid they become. So it is today with the gambling-industrial complex. A dozen years since their spectacular failure of 2003, they finally got their gross receipts tax passed by the Republican-dominated 2015 legislature. (Nevada cannot levy personal or business net income taxes because of 1990 ballot … [Read more...]