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frojack writes:
"Tesla stock soared today, up over 17% at one point, on solid earnings reports, and also due to achieving the highest recommendation of all cars from Consumer Reports (Note, not linking direct to paywalled CR site). In addition, Tesla Motors Inc. is expected to make a big announcement regarding its 'gigafactory' battery plant this week. Tesla is rumored to be partnering with Japan's Panasonic Corp. or South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The location of the factory is also yet to be determined, although analysts have bet on New Mexico or Arizona. One thing is sure: 'Tesla hopes to reinvent battery production like it already did to other parts of the auto supply chain,' one Wall Street analyst said.
Within the next few weeks, CEO Elon Musk will go to China to deliver the country's first Model S according to CNBC."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:45AM
Betting on New Mexico getting it.
Arizona is a very toxic place to businesses at the moment. They are not endearing themselves to anyone with the rampant and bigoted legislation in the last few years.
Not a solid bet to any company seeking to create major infrastructure and move/hire thousands of employees in the state.
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(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:17AM
For someone aiming at Mars (Musk that is, SpaceX etc.) I would think this makes for a fantastic win-win situation :)
[Not that McGregor, Texas ("SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility") or some land not far from Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville, Texas (for a launch pad all on their own) look particularly wet and humid, and that's despite Boca Chica Beach being right next to the Mexican Gulf lol.]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30PM
New Mexico is a backward state too. That's the state where some poor guy driving through was pulled over for DUI (wasn't drunk, or so he claims), then locked up for two years in solitary confinement without any kind of trial at all. They finally remembered they put him there, let him out, he sued and won $15M, but the guy's a complete wreck now. NM isn't much better than Florida, it just has much less population so there's less crazy crap going on due to that. I wouldn't live there.
If they want to build a new factory somewhere, the rust-belt states are probably a good location (they used to be highly industrial before anyway), or maybe Oregon or Washington. Oregon is home to several of Intel's newest and most advanced fabs, and Washington is home to Boeing, so they're both already experienced with high-tech manufacturing. Both of them are very close to the Bay Area (where Tesla is located), and neither of them push for the idiotic auto dealership-supporting laws that some other states have been pushing and passing.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:01PM
I never knew anything substantive about New Mexico.
Tesla would be far better off in the areas you suggest.
Two years being forgotten? That's not just 15 million. Some people needed to go to prison too for that level of gross negligence that resulted in harm. No excuses for that. Simply amazing.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 27 2014, @09:11PM
The problem is that this is law enforcement, and they almost never go to prison for their negligence or even attempted murder or any other crime they commit. Did LAPD officers to go prison for their attempted murder when they emptied their magazines shooting at a pickup truck with two women in it, thinking that Chris Dorner was in it? (Their pickup didn't look anything like Dorner's truck, its only commonality was that it was a truck.) Nope.
(Score: 2, Funny) by fortyseven on Friday February 28 2014, @02:42AM
I'm betting on Roswell, NM.