Funny, Inexorable Reasons Why Elon Musk Must Build the European Tesla Gigafactory in Vigo

Tesla Motors is an American company which specialises in electric cars and also produces battery charging equipment, based in Palo Alto, California. Its CEO is Elon Musk (Elon "Almizcle", in Spanish) a visionary and Internet billionaire who also owns SpaceX. Tesla needs to produce more cars in Europe to meet the demand for electric cars. In my opinion, Tesla could build the projected European Gigafactory in Vigo (Galicia, Spain) because there are a lot of parallels between the city of Vigo, Tesla Motors and California.

Here are some of the coincidences:

-Model X has seagull doors and in Vigo there are a lot of seagulls, that eat whatever they find on the street but never peck your arm when you feed them. Few people know this last fact.

The wings of a seagull from Vigo look similar to the seagull doors of Model X

-The gigafactory needs lithium to make its batteries. Here in Vigo we have a monolith that commemorates the city’s greatest sportsmen and sportswomen, especially those who have competed in the Olympics.

-Tesla has several models of electric cars with different specifications and prices, they are the Model S, Model 3, Model X, and they want to make a Model Y in the future so they can make the word S3XY or SEXY. In Vigo there are at least three modelling agencies where they could choose a Model-O, so if Elon Musk uses the Model-O instead of the Model Y, he can make the word S3XO or SEXO, in Spanish fashion—quite literally.

-California is similar to Galifornia or Galicia, the region where Vigo is located. In Cabazon (California) there are the World’s Biggest Dinosaurs made of concrete.  In Vigo we have the great "Dinoseto," a dinosaur made from a hedge with an egg at its feet. The mayor is very proud of it. He would like to construct a robotic one, and he made sure the industrial engineers at the University of Vigo knew about his ambition during a meeting.

Here is a dinosaur float from Vigo’s 2017 Three Wise Men parade.  A tradition in Spain.

-In Vigo we have a famous monument that represents a "Male Siren" and Elon Musk wants to make a submersible car based on a movie he saw about James Bond, agent 007. So he could bump into sirens too when he travels in his submersible car.

-In California they have Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors. Here we have VGO Basket, Seis do Nadal and Rias Baixas.

 

More ideas on this blog

For a later reflection on imaginative car design, read my post about an email to Elon Musk and the Cybertruck.

The link between Musk, space and basketball also appears in my imagined 2041 NBA All-Star on Mars.

Also on my YouTube channel: a video about photon mass.