Previous predictions like yours haven't aged well.
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Tesla battery warranty is 8 years/100,000 miles. Considering that a replacement Tesla S battery will cost an estimated $5,000.00, anyone who buys a used Tesla that's anywhere close the end of the warranty period will be taking a huge financial risk.
Reminds me of a Jay Leno joke: "How do you double the resale value of a Yugo?" Answer: "Fill the tank."
Cool, lol and this is relevant how?. Again what does this have to do with what I said? Also pretty sure GM has another one in Toronto.
Ya know who else is getting 5,000 "tech" jobs? Detroit, in Corktown at the Michigan central station.
They "only" gave them 40 million for an office park in the middle of nowhere with a lot of far out 30+ year promises. But we're fools somehow? okay. You clearly came here to make bad faith comparisons since you're just listing raw incentive numbers and not attaching the actual investment amounts gotten in return.
Says here GM's global tech center [[aka Warren) employs 21,000 people, so in what world is their Austin center the biggest? Like you're just making things up.
https://www.gm.com/our-company/us/techcenter.html
I think they want it to house up to 15,000 employees but that’s not the point. And also, it’s not in the middle of nowhere. It’s 10-15 minutes from Domain in Austin.
Whatever happened to making Detroit a high tech manufacturing hub though? I saw an article a couple years back that said something about the state wanting to create a several billion dollar hub in Detroit for this exact purpose. That’s what Detroit should focus on economically. It is and always will be a manufacturing powerhouse. No need to compete with tech cities like Austin. Apples to oranges, people