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Tesla Plans To Build Entire City, Possibly Hundreds Of #TeslaCities

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Hi, what are you looking for?Elon Musk can’t stop. Tesla&nbsp;can’t stop. The cleantech revolution can’t stop.As if electric robotaxis, solar roofs, insane battery price reductions and gigafactories, reusable rockets, record-shattering acceleration,&nbsp;electric semi trucks and minibuses, and hyperloops + tunnel-boring companies weren’t enough, Elon&nbsp;Musk has decided to build entire cleantech cities. Well, he’s starting with one, but if all goes well, that could leads to hundreds more.As you might have guessed, these #TeslaCities have several unique features.First of all, when it comes to the buildings, they will all have solar roofs. For remaining electricity needs, electricity will come from wind farms&nbsp;or solar farms built in the region. In certain cases, geothermal power, hydropower, and rainbow power might be used — more on the latter another day. Some amount of battery storage (Tesla Powerpacks and Powerwalls) will be installed as well&nbsp;in order to always match electricity supply with electricity demand.City residents who choose to drive will have to&nbsp;drive fully electric cars — though, they can choose non-Tesla models if they like. Self-driving electric minibuses (one of Tesla’s planned products), trams, and subways will be implemented&nbsp;for certain routes as well. Naturally, though, after&nbsp;living with Los Angeles traffic for longer than anyone should be forced to, Elon is intent to make these #TeslaCities&nbsp;walkable and bikeable, with nice urban cores that mix land uses (residential, commercial, governmental, etc.) and follow certain aesthetic&nbsp;guidelines (think New Urbanism Elon-ized).Industrial hubs will need to focus on matters that&nbsp;help to solve critical human/societal challenges. Though, it’s unclear how the evaluation or permitting for such uses will be implemented.For last-mile deliveries, robots will be used in order to save on costs and further test and develop hardware and software that&nbsp;Elon wants to use for other applications at Tesla and SpaceX. Conventional shippers such as FedEx and UPS will simply deliver their packages to central shipping hubs where #TeslaCities robots take over.The question you probably have on your mind at this point — will #TeslaCities use hyperloops? It seems like some of them would, but we don’t have any details on that yet.Now,&nbsp;Tesla is likely to have no shortage of enthusiasts eager to sign up ASAP to join one of these #TeslaCities, but that doesn’t mean Tesla’s leaving incentives off the table. Early reservation holders* will get priority delivery of the Tesla Model Y and Tesla X-up (that’s Tesla’s coming pickup truck) if they choose to reserve one. Early reservation holders will also be entered into a lottery/raffle to win a Tesla Powerwall 3 or&nbsp;solar roof. (*By the way, it’s $47,000 to reserve a lot in the first #TeslaCity — with no construction timeline for any part of the city published yet.)Steve Jurvetson, Kimbal Musk, and Elon Musk, unsurprisingly,&nbsp;already have their reservations in. Rumor is that ,&nbsp;, , , , ,&nbsp;,&nbsp;, , , and have put down reservations as well.The location for #TeslaCity #1 is somewhere in the vicinity of Cambridge, England. That’s in honor of&nbsp;Douglas Noel Adams&nbsp;(who I just discovered had the same birthday as me), author of&nbsp;.If you have more info on #TeslaCities, please pass it along! (Also, please note&nbsp;today’s date.)Photo by&nbsp;&nbsp;(CC BY 2.0 license)&nbsp;Appreciate CleanTechnica’s originality and cleantech news coverage? Consider becoming a&nbsp;&nbsp;— or a&nbsp;patron on .&nbsp;Don't want to miss a cleantech story? Sign up for on email. Or !&nbsp;Have a tip for CleanTechnica, want to advertise, or want to suggest a guest for our CleanTech Talk podcast? .Advertisement&nbsp;#1 most loved electric vehicle, solar energy, and battery news &amp; analysis site in the world.&nbsp;NIO has been clear with its brand identity since it launched: we sell expensive, premium-class electric vehicles that are quite large, high tech, fancy,...“Not interested — I’ve got a cruiser.” That was the answer I received as off grid exponents tramped through the mud past my low-slung...Europe’s largest auto market, Germany, saw plugin electric vehicles take 28.5% market share in August 2022, their best result YTD, though only marginally up...Tesla has long topped the charts in the USA when it comes to detailed breakdowns of NHTSA safety analyses. The Model S became the...

Hi, what are you looking for?Elon Musk can’t stop. Tesla&nbsp;can’t stop. The cleantech revolution can’t stop.As if electric robotaxis, solar roofs, insane battery price reductions and gigafactories, reusable rockets, record-shattering acceleration,&nbsp;electric semi trucks and minibuses, and hyperloops + tunnel-boring companies weren’t enough, Elon&nbsp;Musk has decided to build entire cleantech cities. Well, he’s starting with one, but if all goes well, that could leads to hundreds more.As you might have guessed, these #TeslaCities have several unique features.First of all, when it comes...

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