that's great and will cut down on the smog in cities. Where ever the heavy metals are mined and electricity generated to charge the vehicles can be thousands of miles away from major populations.
If they get semi trucks down, they will be able to advance to locomotive trains (to pull the coal cars and oil cars to the coast so that it can be boated to Asia)
and then the next step will be sea traffic - oil tankers from Alaska, South America and Middle East will be able to travel the world with their battery powered motors and they can have solar panels that can be opened up or close depending on sun and storm conditions - similar to sails used be ships in the past century's.
Elan Musk should get hundreds of millions of dollars more from the country so he continue to innovate.
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