User talk:Football1144/Tesla Energy

Founded by Elon Musk on April 30th, 2015, Tesla Energy is a component of Tesla, Inc that deals with clean energy. It sells, manufactures, and creates/develops solar and battery energy products. Solar panels, the Tesla Solar Inverter and the Tesla Solar Roof are the three main power generations products in present day. The reason why I believe that it was a good idea to research Tesla Energy is because of how electric vehicles play a role in helping the environment. Obviously, electric cars do not release emissions, and this plays an important role in trying to slow down the carbon footprint. One article that I researched titled, “Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-battery production” written by Mudit Chordia, Anders Nordelof, and Linda Ager-Wick Ellingsen had to do with the impact of the increasing production and use of lithium battery use in relation to electric vehicles. In this article, it was found that the climate will not be negatively affected by Lithium-Ion Battery production as long as the upstream source in the supply chain uses energy sources that are renewable and environmentally friendly. This relates to Tesla energy because to reveals that these electric vehicles can be beneficial to helping the environment and possibly slowing down the issue of climate change as long as these energy sources are executed within moderation. Also, as Tesla created batteries for the business of their electric vehicles, Elon Musk and his company then moved on to using batteries for storage of energy use as well. Battery usage and energy from batteries compared to fossil fuels is more environmentally friendly and does its part in slowing down global climate change. Continuing on this topic, in 2006, Elon Musk adopted “Solar City” to install and then sell solar energy generation systems. Fast forward ten years later to the year 2016, and SolarCity did its part in distributing and installing solar energy systems for about 325,000 people around America. Elon Musk and Tesla’s goal since SolarCity’s adoption and success has been to influence the world to do their part in making the switch to sustainable energy, accelerating the plan to save planet Earth as we know it. Tesla has done a great job in helping to slow down the issue of Global Climate Change with their electric vehicles and ways of transitioning into using sustainable energy.