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Old 05-21-2010, 12:13 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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The NUMMI plant in Fremont was the last auto plant in the Western US and recently closed. Now will reopen in a joint venture between Toyota and Tesla.

This is beyond awesome. Kudos to all parties involved for getting the deal done.

I was thinking that NUMMI could be taken over by a consortium of Bay Area electric car companies(there are bunch nowadays) and I think this is the begninning of that eventually happening.

Anyway, they'll be building this car:

The Tesla Model S
Base Price(according to tesla.com): $49,900





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"Long term, we think we could create 10,000 jobs, half from Tesla and half from our suppliers," Musk said.

The news was hailed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who wrote a letter to Toyota last summer urging the company to look at a possible partnership with Tesla.

Tesla, Toyota to build electric cars at NUMMI plant - San Jose Mercury News
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Old 05-21-2010, 08:31 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Would that be a UAW plant or not?
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Old 05-21-2010, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Would that be a UAW plant or not?
I don't know.

Anyway, in early 2007 I attended a meeting in Palo Alto that introduced us to several electric car companies in the Silicon Valley and one could not help but feel that we were in the preliminary stages of a whole new revolution in transportation.

And this base price is way more accessible then Tesla's first car which came out over $100,000(still had a wait list too).
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Old 05-21-2010, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Also,
I hope Toyota incrimentally phases out of the Venture and is replaced by the electric car upstarts in the region.
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Old 05-21-2010, 09:57 AM
 
Location: California
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That is good news. I hate to see a plant like that go to waste. And the folks around there will be glad the jobs are back.
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Old 05-21-2010, 10:10 AM
 
Location: West LA
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Good news for NorCal regarding the jobs created, bad news for SoCal since they originally were planning to put the plant in Long Beach or Downey.
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:50 PM
 
Location: USA
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This is great. I love Tesla.
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