Tesla has always thought of itself as an energy company. Electric cars were to bootstrap battery manufacturing capacity (typically low margin, made high margin by Tesla through selling luxury vehicles). Who would've given Tesla funds (through bonds) to build Gigafactory 1 with no proven demand for those cells produced?

It is why teslamotors.com is now tesla.com

I hope so. Someone needs to invent some goddamn self-contained solar covered parking spaces. I live in the Southwest and I can't believe that we're in 2018 and no one is tapping into solar power for everything during the day.