Tesla inks battery agreement with panasonic.
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Tesla and panasonic have entered into a non binding letter of intent under which they will begin collaborating on the manufacturing and production of photovoltaic pv cells and modules in buffalo new york.
Panasonic with its technological and manufacturing expertise in pv production will also work with tesla on developing pv next generation technology at solarcity s facility in fremont ca.
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Leveraging the core competencies of each company consumers can look forward to deploying and consuming energy in an efficient and sustainable way with solarcity s existing solar power.
Under this agreement which is contingent upon shareholders approval of tesla s acquisition of solarcity tesla will use the cells and modules in a solar energy system that will work.
A new report shows that tesla s solar factory in buffalo which the company dubbed gigafactory 2 mainly serves as a panasonic factory to supply other solar companies.
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Panasonic s withdrawal from buffalo follows scrutiny of the factory that new york spent close to 1 billion to develop for solarcity the solar energy company tesla acquired in 2016.
My suggestion here was that tesla might be able to take advantage of all this and buy up panasonic s 18650 division on the cheap and use it to continue to provide 18650 cells at cost to itself and solarcity for use in off grid energy storage.
Tesla and solarcity have a tremendous opportunity to create a vertically integrated sustainable energy company offering end to end clean energy products.
Tesla reaffirms solarcity s commitment to create over 1 400 jobs in buffalo including more than 500 manufacturing jobs.
A sign that the partnership was on shaky ground came in january when panasonic sent a letter to its business partners to warn them that none of the tesla solarcity solar modules would be covered.
Tesla s 2016 acquisition of solarcity is looking worse and worse.