Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga on Tuesday, described Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, as someone who is a “genius who defies common sense and can be overly optimistic”, at a young entrepreneurs event in Tokyo, reports Reuters. He then went on to say how he believes “only geniuses can hold onto big visions, and a genius I know is Elon Musk”.
Tsuga’s comments about Musk, come after recent Panasonic talks with Tesla over its expanding battery partnership together. This includes expanding their jointly-owned battery plant, Gigafactory 1 based in Nevada.
The main partnership between both companies is the 1,900,000 sq. ft Giga Nevada battery plant, which opened in July 2016. Panasonic invested $1.6 billion into the factory to allow it to operate at full capacity. Giga Nevada made its first profit in February 2020.
Tsuga also said at the event that Elon Musk can “run straight towards his vision” and can “ignore what is inconvenient”, noting he would never be able to imitate Musk.
The announcement of permits for the construction of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Santa Catarina, along with the imminent start of infrastructure works, is set to generate a record number of jobs in 2024 in the region. Jorge A. Moreno, a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), predicts the creation of approximately 140,000 jobs […]
The Supercharger updates are finally back. It’s been almost a month since my last post on here, and almost two since ending The Weekly Supercharger. Well, I guess the good news is that I am bringing back the updates, albeit in a different and perhaps less frequent format. The new format is going […]
Tesla has announced that the design and engineering details of the original Tesla Roadster are now fully open source. The announcement, made by CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday, signifies a major shift in Tesla’s approach to its proprietary technology. Musk revealed that all of the design and engineering information related to the first Tesla Roadster […]
