{"id":1486,"date":"2020-03-27T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2020-03-28T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:58:04","slug":"new-york-gigafactory-will-reopen-for-ventilator-production-says-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/new-york-gigafactory-will-reopen-for-ventilator-production-says-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Gigafactory will Reopen for Ventilator Production, says Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New York<\/a> invested $750 million to help build the solar-panel gigafactory in Buffalo, and now the plant seems to be helpful in the fight against coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/a>esla\u00a0\u00a0CEO\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0said Wednesday that the company\u2019s factory will open as soon as possible to start to produce ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the pandemic. The sprawling Riverbend plant has struggled for years to meet the state’s high expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

CEO Musk\ntweeted Wednesday afternoon that \u201cGiga New York\u201d will reopen for ventilator\nproduction \u201cas soon as humanly possible,\u201d and the company will do anything in its\npower to help the citizens of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndecision in Buffalo comes after Tesla announced last week production at the\nsolar plant had been temporarily suspended because of New York’s ban on all\nnon-essential businesses and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement from Musk came after the Ireland-based company\u00a0Medtronic said it has already started working with Tesla to fast-track\u00a0the production of ventilators at the California plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ventilators\nare in desperate need in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. The state has\nonly about 4,000 ventilators and the number of positive cases exceeded 82,000\non Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the coronavirus shuttered production plants,\u00a0Elon Musk promised to employ 1,500 people at the Buffalo factory by April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York invested $750 million to help build the solar-panel gigafactory in Buffalo, and now the plant seems to be helpful in the fight against coronavirus. Tesla\u00a0\u00a0CEO\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0said Wednesday that the company\u2019s factory will open as soon as possible to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[159,157,110,158,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}