Tesla And Panasonic Plan Ties With Solar Parts Deal lweb.es/f1827 11.11.2016
Tesla Motors has unveiled plans to collaborate with Panasonic to make solar-energy components for SolarCity Corp., bolstering Elon Musk’s final push to merge the automaker and solar company. Production of photovoltaic cells and modules for solar-energy systems used by SolarCity will begin in 2017 at SolarCity’s factory in Buffalo, New York. Musk, who is Tesla’s chief executive officer and chairman and chief financier of SolarCity, has proposed combining the two companies to give consumers one-stop shopping for an electric car as well as the solar-powered electricity that will power it.