By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36893104
The BBC provide yet more free advertising space for Elon Musk:
Does Elon Musk have more money than sense? Or could it actually be more sense than money?
The chief executive of Tesla is, in a post-Steve-Jobs world, the stand-out visionary voice in Silicon Valley. There’s no question about that.
But with each product launch – or, in this case, a building launch – it seems he needs both more time and more money to realise his own ambitions.
The more he achieves, the bigger the task, and budget, seems to get.
During a typically scorching Tuesday afternoon in the Nevada desert, near Reno, Mr Musk told a group of journalists about his global manufacturing ambitions.
We had just had a tour of the new Gigafactory, Tesla’s $5bn (£3.8bn) 3,200-acre battery-manufacturing plant that has already begun production but will not be in full…
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