BusinessGreen: Tesla's giant battery "Gigafactory" will be built in Nevada, the electric car pioneer confirmed yesterday.
The 465,000 square metre, diamond-shaped facility going up near Reno is expected to be completed in 2017 and produce enough batteries for 500,000 Tesla cars by 2020.
Tesla has also said it will be a "net zero energy factory", powered entirely by solar and wind energy.
Nevada pipped California, Texas, and New Mexico in the race to host the site, which is expected to boost the state's...