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Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by supportlocal4h on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:29AM (#33865345)
It's interesting that Tesla hasn't made a splashy entrance into generation.
Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by infecto on Monday December 05, 2022 @09:18AM (#33865930)
I think in most states within the US, generation is a hard problem to solve because of state regulation. There are some outliers (Texas) but in general its hard to just start your own power plant thats connected to the grid.
Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by oxplot on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:23AM (#33867616)
> There are some outliers (Texas) but in general its hard to just start your own power plant thats connected to the grid.

What if it's not and solely powered by solar (just wondering - Megachargers most likely need help from the grid).

Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by supportlocal4h on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:41PM (#33876003)
Yep. Kinda like manufacturing cars is highly regulated. Or selling them without local dealerships. Or manufacturing industrial warehouse-sized batteries. Or building and operating an international network of charging stations.
Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by nine_k on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:13AM (#33867473)
They have a well-known solar roof program, which is generation, but home-scale.

Maybe a huge charging station which has to have large buffer batteries anyway would benefit from a large solar-panel field nearby / above it, if land price is acceptable. That would be a natural extension of the solar roof business.