Tesla faces order to stop making cars at California factory, under coronavirus lockdown

True, but they’re neither leaders in that segment (Samsung is ahead of them and LG is way ahead of both of them) nor is it very clear how badly needed storage will be to get high penetrations of renewable power. Current utility-scale battery systems are used mainly for services like frequency regulation and not really for bulk storage (key word there being “mainly”). Their primary advantage in bulk storage is that they can replace the small natural gas turbines normally used to meet very short-term peaks. That’s not nothing, but it’s not world-changing either.

Absolutely. He might want to save humankind, but he seems to have little regard for individual humans.

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