If you didn’t catch our live blog of Tesla’s 3rd quarter financials Q&A, one of the most interesting segments of that was when Tesla CEO, Chairman, and Product Architect Elon Musk discussed building a gigafactory for electric car batteries.
A questioner actually got the discussion going, asking if the Tesla team had thought about building its own battery cell plant in order to deal with the battery supply challenges it is having.
Elon replied that they were exploring a lot of different options, but he did mention that they might build what he called a “gigafactory” with partners in North America.
Later on, the topic came back up, and Elon said that it wasn’t the time to discuss this, but he then went on to say quite a bit about it. He said that it would be super green, solar powered, and huge. As Chris DeMorro at sister site Gas2 adds, it would also include a battery recycling program, natch.
There were a lot of other interesting points made in the Q&A, so jump back over there for more.
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