[CPEO-BIF] Tesla Motors to manufacture in Stanford Research Park, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tesla moving HQ, power train plant to Stanford park

by Katherine Conrad
San Francisco Business Times
August 18, 2009

Tesla Motors Inc. has confirmed that it plans to lease 350,000 square 
feet of property once occupied by Agilent Technologies in Stanford 
Research Park.

The electric car maker will move its headquarters from San Carlos to 
Palo Alto and build a power train plant there.

The move to 3500 Deer Creek Road is being helped by $465 million in 
low-interest loans from the U.S. Energy Department.

Tesla had been courted by San Francisco Bay Area cities and in Southern 
California. Originally Tesla planned to build its factory in San Jose. 
But the company needed to find a so-called "brownfield" site to qualify 
for the federal funding it needed.

Last spring, Tesla was looking at buildings in Santa Clara and Fremont 
for an assembly plant. It's now looking in Los Angeles for a spot for 
that factory.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily12.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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