One thousand submissions attract 95 per cent opposition to new Tesla factory in Australian city of Adelaide.
‘I could not think of a worse developer to sell the land to. Tesla sales have been plummetting [sic] … this is likely to attract protests and negative attention that the neighbourhood does not need or want.’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/27/australia-news-live-liberals-nationals-coalition-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-north-west-shelf-climate-change-gas-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-683509788f08990e36519186#block-683509788f08990e36519186
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$1 says they do it anyway and it goes exactly as expected.
Well, the last line of the article does say:
Staff at the City of Marion officially recommended the council sell the land to Tesla, with the proposal to be discussed at a council meeting tonight.
So, you very well may be right. It will be interesting to see which way this proceeds…
It has been approved.
This will go down well…
Hope it burns to the ground over and over again.
Good on them. Musk can fuck all the way off. Plenty of other car companies whose CEOs don’t seig heil.
I wish Kia in Australia were doing the cool EV stuff that they’re doing in Northern Europe, instead of bringing an emotional support vehicle.
What do you mean? There’s plenty of Hyundai EVs in australia. Spicy prices though
Kia, not Hyundai. Same chaebol, but it’s still its own separate product and marketing teams.
Kia Norway was running some good antifascist pro-EV ad campaigns earlier in the year for their sensible mid-sized EVs. The contrast between that and Kia Australia’s latest big marketing push which is for a huge gas guzzler with the dumb “pretend I’m a rugged manly man” TV spots just struck me.
Unfortunately I think it probably was. Australians are stupidly carbrained.
@Zagorath There is a risk. . .
Sorry, in my head the brands are interchangeable, still plenty of EVs with epithet marque. Plenty of people want Ute’s and wouldn’t surprise me if they made a hybrid or pure ev like the shark
Radelaide indeed.
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@sqgl done. It may or may not federate correctly though.
Worked at my end.
@[email protected] I have no use for NIMBY even when the thing is against someone I don’t like anyway.
You don’t seem to understand the definition of NIMBY. NIMBY is opposition to something worthwhile which you would support everywhere else but in your own backyard. A Tesla factory is not worthwhile and should be opposed everywhere they try to set up shop.
It’s not just NIMBY when it’s public land being sold to a private buyer.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Why is it public land in the first place. I can’t find an answer to that, if this is a park they are turning into a factory that is one thing, but the information I’m able to find suggest this is land is not that. The only reasoning given in your blurb works to “we don’t think Tesla is a good company” - which is the NIMBY reasoning we need to oppose or cities will get worse.
Chestnut Court Reserve has not been accessible to the public since 2016 due to contamination concerns. Through the sale of the land MAB CCT Ltd would be required to address the contamination to support a future development application.
It looks like it was vacant residences that were demolished in 2016. I am also having trouble finding informative sources, but from what I can tell the contamination was from past manufacturing in the area.
The land belongs to the public. The public have the right to decide what to do with the land. End of story.
Either way cities don’t get worse when the public opposes the sale of land to international capitalist giants that actively engage in political manipulation. Buffalo, NY can tell you all about letting Musk build factories with public resources.
It was the former Chrysler car factory, given back to the SA govt by Mitsubishi and zoned industrial.
Is it NIMBY though?
Honestly?
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when you talk about Tesla being a bad business that is nimby - it is none of your businenn how good an investment it is for tesla. unless the city is proposing some loan guarentees or other such things that I oppose but those are unrelated to a tesla.
I gotta disagree, given the contention of the owner that business is going to potentially be a hazard - not only bad practises within itself but also the chance someone’s gonna firebomb the joint
@bluGill umm, no? NIMBY is where you oppose things that you claim to believe are a good idea, but just “not in my backyard”. Like “yes we need more housing, but not *here* because that would hurt my property prices”
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NIMBY generally finds reasons that make it sound global against everything, but the real truth they oppose change in their backyard and then look for reasons to oppose it that they can make sound global.
Its a battery reconditioning factory.
