Tesla Renewable Energy Feasibility

Vincent Apunike
4 min readOct 19, 2023

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Tesla's account on Twitter now X explains Tesla auto manufacturing simply as electric vehicles, giant batteries, and solar. Someone seeing this post may think I just woke up and started talking about Tesla. I kept this topic for months, thinking about it, and researching, because I believe that sustainable clean energy is very important. Some may even say that now is not the best time to talk about Elon Musk or question what qualifies me. Either way, Tesla is the world leader in battery electric passenger cars, selling millions of its different models: S, X, 3, Y, and of course Tesla Roadster and the sleek Cybertruck, the new Highlander, and the efficient Tesla Semi.

This is not a promotional post for Tesla as such, like, this could even be for SpaceX you know, and Elon Musk buying Twitter and improving it means that even through funny memes you could learn a thing or two about the company or better still visit the stores and galleries because Tesla doesn't use dealerships. The vertical integration business model of Tesla is useful in making electric cars more widespread. The other day I was reading about Thomas Edison and the invention of electricity. That may be the name you remember and that's for good reason but it took many experiments for human beings to enjoy electricity today. So, Tesla is named after the inventor Nikola Tesla and was founded on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Elon Musk who is now the majority shareholder and CEO.

J.B. Straubel was someone I learned about when I read Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. Engineers like him are concerned about solving real problems. As a fiction author, I could stretch science for entertainment and enlightenment but in the biography, one of Elon Musk's companies either Tesla or SpaceX wanted engineers who have actually worked with metal and done some real engineering work. They even discovered a magnificent welding process that changed the game for their enterprises.

Anyway, renewable energy like solar still involves storing capacity and even sharing energy with the power grids. So Lithium ion cell production for these guys was something they knew they had to figure out to serve a larger humanity purpose. Also, optimizing it to fit the cars was important because you get more range with a lesser amount of charging.

Everyone should be concerned about the climate because of incidences like flooding or drought. Taking care of the environment encompasses a huge scope of interrelated activities that's even when we get everyone to believe that planet Earth needs to be taken care of. Ask me I probably even write a whole novel about that but sometimes it takes a sensational focus and drive to work on key aspects that provide major improvements and that's what Tesla is doing. They solve these problems and make their products and features cool.

As I said, for me it's not just about Tesla, the same energy and brilliance are applied to making things happen in other companies Elon Musk owns. The SolarCity deal makes sense because they make solar use application even more widespread. You can now roof your house entirely with solar panels.

I saw this video on Twitter now X which to me was like a grumpy tired way of saying, "How would you believe us when we say that autopilot capability is possible?" It was a video of one of SpaceX's rockets landing accurately. Surely, those who excel in space exploration could handle Full Self-Driving mode. As Tesla explained on X, FSD features use vision neural networks to perceive and understand the world just like humans do.

This is the same corporation that produces robots, in fact, robots also build Teslas. It doesn't mean people should not have their concerns. They know I have mine but it doesn't mean we shouldn't be open to what's possible. You may say, "What's the point of putting down $100,000 on this just so I don't get to drive it so that it drives itself? I could as well be in the subway." However, think about many people and many situations these new developments would help.

Tesla's headquarters is in Gigafactory Texas in Austin, Texas, in the United States of America. Following the innovative footsteps of Ford Motor Company, Tesla went public on NASDAQ in 2010. Tesla stock is highly valuable as it is the world's most valuable automaker.

Supercharger networks including destination chargers for businesses, Tesla insurance, opting to directly sell to customers, and the business Tesla has done with other auto manufacturing including NACS, the North American Charging Standard, will make the company keep growing strong. I don't want anybody to feel somehow about this article because when you read Elon Musk, his latest biography by Walter Isaacson, you may get more insights on how his purpose is about helping humanity. Anyway, buy whatever car you like because almost all automakers produce electric cars now.

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