{"id":92317,"date":"2025-05-31T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=92317"},"modified":"2025-05-30T03:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:34:08","slug":"phase-shift-boycott-the-products-not-the-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/phase-shift-boycott-the-products-not-the-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase Shift: Boycott The Products, Not The Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tesla-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1426\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tesla-protest.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tesla-protest-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tesla-protest-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tesla-protest-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1426px) 100vw, 1426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s okay to boycott Tesla products.<\/p>\n<p>If Elon Musk\u2019s tweets make your teeth itch, if his politics repulse you, or if his general vibe just gives you the ick, fair enough. Buying something is emotional and if seeing a Tesla logo in your garage would make you miserable, you shouldn&#8217;t buy one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But trying to stop a Tesla facility in Adelaide that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reduce waste by giving batteries a second life,<\/li>\n<li>create exactly the kind of high-value jobs this city needs,<\/li>\n<li>and clean up contaminated land that\u2019s sat idle for decades\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026because of this one objectionable man?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of good reasons to take a stand against Elon\u2019s business interests, but in the case of this project, there are even better reasons to support it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92318\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Proposed-Tesla-facility-Adelaide.jpg\" alt=\"A map illustrating the proposed Tesla facility in Adelaide\" width=\"1280\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Proposed-Tesla-facility-Adelaide.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Proposed-Tesla-facility-Adelaide-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Proposed-Tesla-facility-Adelaide-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Proposed-Tesla-facility-Adelaide-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of the proposed Tesla facility in the south of Adelaide.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>A Win For Jobs And The Environment<\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s the deal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-factory-adelaide-mb3156\/\">Tesla wants to build<\/a> a battery refurbishment facility at the old Mitsubishi site in Tonsley, about 4 km from my house. The plan is to inspect, test, and repurpose used batteries from EVs and Powerwalls, rather than scrapping them. Along the way, they\u2019ll remediate the site and hire skilled workers in a city that needs both.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash has been huge. Over 200 public objections (95% of submissions) and a fired-up crowd at a recent public meeting. Some raised legitimate concerns &#8211; noise, traffic, zoning &#8211; which deserve proper scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the outrage is not about the project itself. You can see it in the signs, the comments, the tone: they\u2019re not just anti-industrial land use.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re anti-Tesla. And let\u2019s be honest, that\u2019s really just code for anti-Elon.<\/p>\n<h2>Tesla Is More Than One Man<\/h2>\n<p>I get it. I don\u2019t like Elon either. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-tesla-dilemma\/\">I think he\u2019s a deeply unpleasant bloke<\/a>, and there&#8217;s good reasons to stand up to his agenda. But Tesla isn\u2019t just Elon. It\u2019s thousands of engineers, designers, and workers trying to make energy cleaner and transport smarter.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the kind of facility Adelaide should want: low emissions, high-tech, future-focused and job-creating.<\/p>\n<p>If South Australia had blocked Tesla&#8217;s Hornsdale Big Battery because people didn\u2019t like the CEO, we\u2019d have missed out on a world-first project that slashed prices, improved grid reliability, and sparked global copycats.<\/p>\n<p>Hate Elon if you want. Boycott the cars, the batteries, the brand.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t block the work. Don\u2019t let your opposition to the bad things Elon is up to derail progress on a positive project.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about protecting Adelaide from Elon Musk. It\u2019s about letting Adelaide get on with building the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s okay to boycott Tesla products. If Elon Musk\u2019s tweets make your teeth itch, if his politics repulse you, or if his general vibe just gives you the ick, fair enough. 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