Tesla Factories Pollute Schools? A Story Nobody is Talking About

From a long list of horrible societal harms from Tesla, some obviously criminal, this one surprised me the most.

Tesla’s paint shop at their factory in Fremont has been noncompliant with the EPA for 11 of the last 12 quarters. And no one talks about it. They’re just rampantly violating environmental laws and emitting stuff into the air with a school next door.

It reminds me of the high profile Ford paint dumping catastrophe that over decades has poisoned Native American families.

New Jersey is suing the Ford Motor Company over hazardous waste dumping on Native American land in Passaic County since the 1960s.

Tesla definitely knew about this Ford issue when they decided to repeat the mistakes.

2019: EPA finds Tesla failures and Tesla settled with EPA on hazardous waste violations

EPA led unannounced inspections at the Fremont facility in 2017 along with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. The inspections identified violations of federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations. RCRA rules require the safe management of hazardous waste to protect public health and the environment and to prevent costly cleanups.

Tesla was fined by the EPA settlement… wait for it… $31K.

2020: Tesla accused of Environmental rule violations

2022: EPA again issues a pathetically small penalty.

Tesla has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act…

Tesla is a dangerous fraud, according to the settlement, which points it out again and again.

Yet as that fraud directly polluted schools, there’s no evidence of real assessment and accountability.

The Fremont factory should have been shut down and rigorously tested for air quality violations.

FAILING 11 out 12 QUARTERS?!

Don’t open that factory until it can pass every quarter going forward.

Stopping Tesla from making cars not only would protect families unfortunately living near these fraud factories, it would help reduce the number of Tesla on the road (a known threat to everyone around, especially its driver).

It’s particularly revealing to see Tesla use propaganda tactics.

Look back to what happened before the EPA stepped in.

In 2018 it seems Tesla claimed to be hapless victims who said they believed in raising standards of environmental quality.

…the plant emitted elevated levels of smog-forming nitrogen oxides from 2013 through 2016. […] “They were the result of Tesla inheriting an older building that was not up to our standards.”

Three years? Come on. That’s willful ignorance. Standards would have found it and fixed it.

It reads like catching a son sitting in his father’s chair slowly smoking a pipe who says “this is all dad’s fault”. Smoking kills, dude. No excuses.

They paid California regulators $139,500 in that case, another measly fine.

Guess what happened next. The pollution continued to an even worse degree, as detailed above. After calling themselves superior, Tesla was polluting more and caught by the EPA for lack of necessary plans and controls.

Today we know with certainty that Tesla intentionally lowered standards at their factory from the start, becoming infamous for safety levels set below everyone else.

They allegedly believed in getting away with environmental crimes, opposite of what any community should ever want.

Tesla pollutes directly into a school, with minimal protection or representation for its victims?

Where do we find out more?

Who is reporting on this?

Tesla Driver Covers License Plate to Evade Arrest For Slamming Brakes on Freeway

Tesla engineering has been blamed for their cars abruptly slamming brakes and causing deaths, as well as big highway pileups.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the automated driving assist was available to the public the same day that a Tesla on FSD caused a pileup in a tunnel.

They’re considered a “sore thumb” of transit.

Now a Tesla owner has taken this a step further and treated the unsafe car design as a platform to facilitate his plans for rage and hate.

A video from local news shows the man in a Tesla swerve abruptly and slam the brakes.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

See the hidden license plate?

The video in full shows he jumps out and assaults other people and their property, not just this one time.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Look at the blue car to the right for a normal license plate, easy to read by comparison.

Hitting a car with a weapon, as we know from extremely rigorous police prosecution of bicyclists, is a serious crime.

There were no injuries, but [because he rode a bicycle instead of attacking from a car] he was charged with multiple felonies, and eventually pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon, and vandalism.

Of course police easily could find this criminal, as the car is constantly being monitored in great detail by Tesla. Insurance algorithms may already have identified him.

He stands out as Elon Musk’s Twitter rage army… on wheels and in person.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

The pre-meditation is evidenced by measures taken to hide the license plate… and maybe that giant black pipe used in a very specific way.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Police deal with illegally obscured plates all the time, of course.

Some may recall the license plate was invented specifically because car drivers from the beginning of cars were cruelly causing crashes and using their powerful engines to run away without being recognized.

Tesla seems to be not only trying to reinvent the wheel, it’s recreating the worst possible mistakes in history… by design.

Update January 14:

At least ten independent crimes have been connected to the same Tesla.

Everyone that has come forward has reported experiencing similar things: they were harassed, even chased, by a man in a dark Tesla.

This now begs a deeper integrity check of law enforcement ignoring hate crimes.

Source: ABC Los Angeles

A dozen alleged felony crimes with one vehicle and police say they are struggling to find a violent white male perpetrator despite him being in a constantly surveilled car.

All the drivers have filed reports with law enforcement. The incidents have happened across Southern California, so different agencies are investigating.

Source: ABC Los Angeles

Different agencies investigating violent crimes is a subtle nod to the unsolved killing fields of Texas.

His “uniform” is strangely consistent, as well as his premeditated and repeated use of that same Tesla and pipe.

It appears he targets non-white drivers, am I right? More specifically he may be targeting women or people he has profiled as unlikely to run him over, despite swinging a pipe.

For example in one video outside a shed in Atwater he yells “you better go outside Cali where you came from” and you can hear the clear retort “You don’t even know where I’m from. I’m born and raised in LA”.

Police easily could have pulled Atwater storage shed records, in that case of hate alone. He obviously had a reason to park there. So what is the reason police let the obvious criminal Tesla roam so freely?

Update January 31: he is arrested and has targeted women.

Tesla “Solar Factory” Implicated in FSD Fraud: 500 Workers Directed to Classify Images for Driving

Elon Musk launched the Tesla concept for chargers in 2012 as solar powered.

..the CEO announced that the company was developing a network of solar-powered, high-speed charging terminals to be installed at roadside restaurants, rest stops, and shopping centers…

Have you seen a solar-powered Tesla charger? Probably not. And now I’ll explain why “solar factory” means nothing of the sort, instead being a giant coverup for the fraud of FSD.

You probably also haven’t seen any 1940s Japanese Tama EV style “battery swap” stations despite Musk fraudulently announcing Tesla had opened them for business in 2015.

What Tesla did do, instead of making that station open as it had told the public it was—and, by the way, they told the California Air Resources Board, which was subsidizing it quite heavily—was ship in some extra superchargers and hook them up to diesel generators. Instead of seeing this cutting edge future battery swap technology, I saw Tesla—literally the long tail pipe problem, as it’s called—become very, very short, as these diesel generators puffed out emissions and recharged these Teslas. Then when I went to Tesla and told them what I found, the way they handled it was extremely jarring to me. And I realized how cynical this company could be. And I just had this instinct that that kind of cynicism is never an isolated thing. There’s never just one cockroach like this.

Cockroaches hate the sun.

Elon Musk lied to take government money and repurpose it illegally. He promised the sun would be the source of energy when any Tesla needed to recharge its batteries — even announcing it as “free energy forever”.

Indeed (at the very moment the US Environmental Protection Agency accused VW of installing illegal manipulation devices on diesel) Elon Musk did something even worse than VW.

He started running the dirtiest diesel engines possible while marketing it as “clean energy” for Tesla car chargers. Cynical doesn’t even begin to describe this level of willful harm and deceit, especially as VW executives went to jail for far less.

Despite having a view of the fake battery swap terminal and fake solar panels, Tesla gave car owners no choice but connect to giant dirty diesel generators as they listened to news about VW “cheating”.

Like all of his “promises”, Elon Musk had made a totally empty one meant to excite and confuse everyone while he did knowingly wrong/illegal things and walked away with ill-gotten money.

He doubled down on the lies two years after that, as a 2021 article complained.

In 2017, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to add solar and batteries to all Supercharger stations and eventually disconnect most of them from the grid. This has yet to happen. …for the most part, its charging stations are powered by the grid and from whatever source of electricity owned by the local utilities.

Why no solar charging sites? A whole decade has passed now since fraudulently being announced as already developing. Instead diesel-powered trucks have been delivering giant batteries to Tesla charging sites, and reportedly bursting into environmental disasters of highly toxic fires.

Safe and clean renewable energy generation for charging hasn’t materialized as predicted by Tesla, even though they soaked up government handouts tailored to their false promises of solar.

Some speculate all of it has just been a game to juice investors, redirecting funds with insider/family corruption.

SolarCity had never been profitable. In 2015 alone, it lost $710 million. The losses prompted Elon Musk, its chairman, to push for Tesla, which he also headed, to purchase SolarCity, which was managed by his cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive. At the time of the merger, SolarCity was $3.4 billion in debt. That purchase went through in late 2016, despite misgivings by some Tesla board members, court records show. To win them over, Musk unveiled plans for a revolutionary product, a roof composed entirely of solar panels.

“Plans”. We all know what “plans” mean to Elon Musk, right?

Fantasy.

No solar tiles covering roofs, just like no solar charging stations.

The plans were total hot air, not based in any reality.

Musk, in a deposition he gave during the lawsuit against him, conceded the Solar Roof was a “nascent product.” […] Stout, the current Tesla employee whose job involved building and maintaining manufacturing lines, said the plant struggled to produce the Solar Roof.  “It was a bad design all around,” he said of the initial version of the Solar Roof. “It was a poor product design, and then the manufacturing design was not sufficient to bring it to scale.” […] “Tesla just stopped using the solar cells that were being made in their own building because they couldn’t figure it out.”

The reporting goes on to say Tesla then had to stop importing Chinese panels it had hoped to pass off as its own, after it was disclosed that slave labor was involved.

Now another moral failure has surfaced as the dysfunctional Tesla solar factory in NY is being exposed more.

Idle staff are the brains allegedly behind Tesla’s infamously blind AI.

About 500 jobs — nearly one-third of the current workforce of 1,636 — are those entry-level desk positions, in which workers label images from the company’s self-driving vehicle software — merge signs, turning lanes, pedestrians — in an attempt to train the autonomous driving algorithms. The rest of the auto-related jobs involve the assembly of charging equipment for Tesla cars.

That software has been implicated in at least 17 fatalities. The charging equipment has a reputation for fires. None of it should be unregulated, or hidden in a solar factory.

See what Elon Musk meant when he said his cars would be relying entirely on “learning” cameras?

Learning? This isn’t what people think they are buying from Tesla.

Human classifiers aren’t futuristic.

Entry-level temp desk workers in Buffalo secretly trying to read and label video… sounds highly problematic and unsafe.

Privacy? Unlikely there is any.

Gas Stoves Dangerously Pollute Air But Can They be Banned?

The COVID pandemic has greatly raised awareness of air quality.

Caught now in the cross hairs of home safety are gas stoves.

A federal agency is reportedly considering a ban on gas stoves on the heels of rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances. 

It makes sense to phase them out like coal or wood burning stoves, if not faster because air quality science is so much more accurate now.

That being said, coal and wood are regulated by controlling fuel supply more than usage. So the right move is to ban gas being supplied to homes, which we’ve been seeing already.

In a unanimous vote on Tuesday night, Berkeley became the first city in the U.S. to ban natural gas connections in new buildings. Beginning in 2020, all new buildings in Berkeley, including commercial and residential construction, will be all-electric…

A ban on stoves seems like very wishful/provocative reporting, at the wrong end of the stick.