It's sad if true, all the pitchbook pictures had that beautiful blue roof:
We don' know for sure, hence the 'probably' but here's the Daily Kanban, October 10:
Tesla Gigafactory solar power scrapped, insider claims
When Californian electric carmaker Tesla floated the idea of a monstrous battery factory, christened “Gigafactory” by Elon Musk, it was true to the heart of every fan of clean energy. The company circulated pictures of a monstrous roof made all from solar panels. The trouble is, like so many things announced by Tesla, it may not be true.
The pictures of a Gigafactory decked-out in solar panels are still on Tesla’s website, but recent drone footage of the Gigafactory shows the battery plant devoid of any topside solar panels. There may never be any solar panels, a Gigafactory insider claims.
On the Australian auto site Carpoint, a commenter who says he works at the Gigafactory in Nevada, says that “despite Elon also owning Solar City, and the original plan to make the Gigafactory solar powered, that plan was permanently scrapped.“The picture at the top is from TreeHugger's November 2015 story "Tesla's Gigafactory will produce as much renewable energy as it uses (net zero energy)".
Why the change of mind and roof? Follow the money. Would you invest big into solar panels if you can get large parts of your power for free? You might not, but Tesla does....MUCH MORE
And as recently as January of this year The Verge was headlining:
Tesla will power its Gigafactory with a 70-megawatt solar farm
But maybe not.
