Thursday, December 29, 2016

He is the swede who will challenge Elon Musk – Expressen

Peter Carlsson was previously purchasing manager at Tesla but decided to leave the company after the Model X has been launched in October 2015.

And now he has decided to challenge Tesla – even if he himself does not express himself so.

Planning a “Gigafactory” in Sweden

With a budget of 40 billion and a team of former Tesla employees, he shall build an american equivalent to the “Gigafactory” at an undisclosed location in Sweden.

” We have not gone out so great yet, so I don’t think Elon Musk knows it. But his vision is to drive the transition away from oil in transport. He knows that it must kraftsamlas far more capital and resources than what the Tesla can persuade in order to implement this, ” he says to this Week’s business.

– So we are not competing with Tesla, we are helping to drive the transformation.

“The best in Sweden”

the Team has for a long time travelled in Europe around that, inter alia, to attract investors and potential customers, but also providers and politicians.

– If we have with a number of stakeholders who have insight into the project now so we hope that they are about twelve months, when we really need to build up substantial capital to put in the shovel in the ground and build a factory, have sufficient confidence in the project. It is estimated to cost 40 billion crowns in four steps. Vinnova and the Swedish energy agency were early supporters, ” he says.

People to the team for the project brought in from all corners of the world, both from Japan and the united states, but also from home.

– We also want to be the best in Sweden in the area, ” he says.

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