Maybe Tesla could drop down a battery pack & install superchargers? There's a synergy between "place too remote to ship out power for selling" and "place too remote to ship in power for electric cars"
Maybe Tesla could drop down a battery pack & install superchargers? There's a synergy between "place too remote to ship out power for selling" and "place too remote to ship in power for electric cars"
- natural gas (building a pipeline)
- electricity (generation, transformers, high voltage lines, etc.)
- bits (copper, fiber, microwave, cellular, satellite all are viable for low bandwidth operation)
It's orders of magnitude in terms of cost difference.
The issue with superchargers is mostly that these places are in the middle of nowhere--nobody is going to be driving their Tesla across the Permian.
Ironically, with Tesla's new plant in Austin a few hundred miles east, there may be a lot of Teslas in the Permian soon.
I was just up in the Bakken and all I saw was F250's. Maybe if Cybertruck ever happens we'll see those adopted instead :)