It still boggles my mind that Tesla is supposedly worth more than Ford and GM combined.
Looks like Missouri has put in a formal bid for the Cybertruck Gigafactory.
https://electrek.co/2020/04/14/tesla-cybertruck-gigafactory-missouri-1-billion-incentives-formal-bid/
https://electrek.co/2020/04/14/tesla-cybertruck-gigafactory-missouri-1-billion-incentives-formal-bid/
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Joplin, Missouri has put in a formal offer, there is no state formal state offer other than Joplin offering various state tax credits.danke0 wrote: ↑Apr 15, 2020Looks like Missouri has put in a formal bid for the Cybertruck Gigafactory.
https://electrek.co/2020/04/14/tesla-cybertruck-gigafactory-missouri-1-billion-incentives-formal-bid/
Right, Joplin! Good for them. It would be great to see an American factory making innovative eco-friendly American cars and creating American jobs here in Missouri. As others have said, it will probably go to a more future-oriented state, but at least someone made a move.
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A billion dollars to a private company EEEK. It would be one thing if it was for tech jobs like the Amazon HQ2 or something, but for an auto assembly plant?
Saving on payroll is nice, but if Tesla is considering magnet cities like Nashville and Austin front runners then Joplin is nowhere near their radar. St. Louis and KC aren't as flashy as Nashville and Austin, but they are way closer than Joplin and can still make the cost of living argument.On top of the incentives, Joplin also estimates that Tesla would save about $75 million a year in payroll compared to Nashville and Austin, which are apparently the frontrunners, due to the lower cost of living.
They'll probably build it in the desert somewhere where they'll have to steal water from two states away.
Musk says he will move Tesla out of California after dispute over reopening
AWESOME!
COME TO MISSOURI!
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/09/tes ... sk-tweets/
AWESOME!
COME TO MISSOURI!
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/09/tes ... sk-tweets/
It says in the first sentence (and your link address) that Musk said he will move the HQ to Texas or Nevada...hebeters2 wrote: ↑May 09, 2020Musk says he will move Tesla out of California after dispute over reopening
AWESOME!
COME TO MISSOURI!
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/09/tes ... sk-tweets/
Musk is an independent.BellaVilla wrote: ↑May 12, 2020Another democrat who doesn't stand with organized labor. Smh
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*Minor correction* Musk is whatever serves him/his companies personally at the moment.
Any state going bananas to offer incentives to TSLA need only look at how that went for CA, NV, and NY. That is to say, everywhere they've set up shop to this point. For any "Musk is a genius" truthers out there licking their chops to respond, please read extensively on their buffalo plant and incentives taken from the state of NY before doing so.
Oh, dear lord, look what they've gone and done in Tulsa:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-monume ... 14539.html
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-monume ... 14539.html
OK, Musk may be a genius, but good lord he's got absolutely no fashion sense:
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Shouldn't everyone around them be wearing masks?framer wrote: ↑May 28, 2020OK, Musk may be a genius, but good lord he's got absolutely no fashion sense:
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Why would an entire group of people training in quarantine together for a mission need to wear masks around each other?
Lol. They may not be very fashionable, but they won't fall down!
For a while would listen to a Bay Area talk radio host who would praise Musk for accomplishments but slam him about the one thing that no one wants to talk about. Whether it be Tesla or Space X and so on he is also master of getting the government subsidies whether it was electric car tax credit and or getting ahead of everyone else on govt space contracts.. The others but less successful ventures of trying to get state and local governments to buy into hyperloop and or his boring machine. He will probably one up Amazon when they shopped a deal for HQ2 and get twice as much subsidies for half the workers involved with an auto plant.framer wrote: ↑May 23, 2020Oh, dear lord, look what they've gone and done in Tulsa:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-monume ... 14539.html
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The background folks are also in quarantine with them?newstl2020 wrote: ↑May 28, 2020Why would an entire group of people training in quarantine together for a mission need to wear masks around each other?
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I have no idea. But you clearly don't either.
I do find your apparent need to run to the internet to be the moral arbiter of mask wearing by NASA personnel extraordinarily creepy and weird, though.
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^ he's a bit of a one-quip pony these days. : D