Tesla will become Chinese

Elon Musk will build a plant in Shanghai. In China, 180 thousand electric vehicles were sold in six months, in Russia - 29.

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Charging Tesla Model S. Photo: Jeff Cooper / Wikimedia Commons / ( CC by 2.0 )

Elon Musk agreed with the Chinese authorities on the construction of the Tesla plant in the free economic zone of Shanghai. China is the world's largest electric car market. The new factory will allow Tesla to sharply reduce the cost and solve eternal problems with the volume of production.

• Tesla is the first Western car manufacturer, who managed to agree on the construction of a 100% of its own plant: so far China has required a mandatory creation of a joint venture with local players. But such a scheme would put Tesla patents and technologies in the danger.
• China has been ahead of the United States for electric vehicles back in 2015, the government subsidizes their production. In 2016, 350 thousand electric vehicles were sold in China, in the first half of 2017-180 thousand. By 2025, sales should grow to 7 million a year.

• Since 2019, the Chinese government obliged all automakers to include electric cars in its line of models. In the future, officials are discussing the ban on the sale of cars with an internal combustion engine.
• Now Tesla has only one factory in California. This year, the company began to produce its first mass model of Model 3 and immediately encountered delays in the supply of a car, which made 500 thousand pre -orders. In the third quarter, Tesla produced 260 cars instead of the planned 1500.

What am I to me?

In Russia, the market and the infrastructure of new electric vehicles will not appear soon. In the first half of 2017, we sold 29 new electric vehicles, for the whole of 2016 - 83. The entire park in the country was about 1000 cars compared to a million in China. Tesla plans in Russia are still limited to five official SuperCharger chargot stations, which the company applied to its card back in 2014, but has not yet opened it.

MONEY

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PRACTICE

The most expensive specialty

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For affordable housing in the USA

Recently, we wrote about which housing can be rented in different cities for $ 1,500 per month, Moscow was in the middle of the rating, New York-the most expensive. The new Bloomberg rating based on the data of the statistical service Numbeo estimated the availability of housing in relation to the average salary - and here is a completely different picture . Moscow takes 7th place in the top ten cities, Kyiv-2nd, in the first-the capital of Venezuela Karakas, where the apartment is rented, according to Bloomberg, there are 14 periods of salaries. In the rating of cities with the most affordable housing 7 out of 10 - megacities of the United States and Canada.

Fun

In case of the war with the DPRK

In the United States, for $ 14.7 million, the "safest house in the country" is put up for sale. Under a mansion in the prestigious area near Atlanta, a bunker is arranged by 2,000 meters, the building is equipped with autonomous power supply systems and water supply, and the doors of the bedroom maintain AK-47 fire. For construction, an architect who designed prisons for an American Ministry of Justice was specially invited for construction. The owner spent 6 years and $ 30 million on the house and planned to transfer it to his son, but he refused to live in the fortress.

Peter Mironenko, The Bell