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Tesla using Chinese solar panels at South Buffalo factory
Tesla has installed solar panels on its Buffalo factory made by a Chinese competitor. It now only assembles Solar Roofs in Buffalo.
But as Investigative Post reported last year, Tesla struggled to produce the Solar Roof at scale, eventually prompting Panasonic to move its 400 Buffalo jobs to Malaysia. As recently as last year, a study by Sheffield Hallam University and the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice found that LONGi Solar was using materials sourced from companies located in the Xinjiang Uyghur region. Investigative Post then filed a Freedom of Information Law request with Fort Schuyler in January, seeking the name of the manufacturer of the panels and the company that sold them to Tesla.
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