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Tesla Gigafactory Sparks Real Estate Surge in Nevada

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“I want land, I want a good deal and I want it near Tesla’s new Gigafactory.”

If you’re in real estate, an investor or just watch the news you know there has been a high demand for land near Tesla’s new Gigafactory located in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Park.

Vacant land surrounding the Gigafactory has been on sale for many years but with minimal interest from buyers. Once the announcement came that Tesla was building the world’s largest battery factory within the vicinity, interest around land and real estate has come pouring in from every outlet.

A significant amount of deals have been completed with little to no knowledge to the public and LLC’s are being created to mask the actual purchaser. If you drive out to the Industrial Park you’ll see signs all over USA Parkway saying “Land for Sale”. Six months ago these signs rarely existed or would be overlooked with no interest. Not anymore!!

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I had a call from a client stating “I have $5 Million and I want an apartment complex near Tesla” … Yes, that sounds great but you know this investor was not from the area or knew very little about the land he wanted to buy. The Tahoe Reno Industrial Park is just that, an Industrial Park, not a place to have residential housing. The companies in the Industrial Park may produce smells and loud noises that are not too conducive to residential or mulit-family housing but there is a plan for a Hotel located right off USA Parkway not too deep into the park. Tesla’s announcement has brought more than just construction jobs, their supply chain and lots of talk. It brought money to the area.

Gigafactory-Apartments-Tahoe-Reno“I have $5 Million and I want an apartment complex near Tesla”

Just a short 15 minute drive west is the cities Reno and Sparks (separated by a freeway). On August 19th, 2014 a 296-unit apartment complex called Eastland Hills was purchased for $27.5M and created a lot of talk in the area. Many attributed this purchase to Tesla and our local news paper the Reno Gazette Journal calling it the “Tesla Touch”.

Reno Sparks Tahoe Homes reported another apartment complex just a half of a mile away from Eastland Hills, a 256-unit luxury garden style complex Villas at D’Andrea was purchased for $32M on December 18th, 2014. You can see how months later the Tesla Gigafactory announcement is still having a large impact on the community.

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When it comes to buying vs building the Reno/Sparks market is finally at a breakeven point. We have low re-sale inventory, approximately 2.6 months when the norm should be around 6 months of inventory. This has been putting pressure on new construction. We have lots of new developments opening in the area and even though we’re 15 minutes away from the Tesla Gigafactory, land is being scooped up all over.

What are you waiting for?

by Candy Noel
Real Estate Professional at RenoSparksTahoeHomes.com

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Tesla Model 3 gets perfect 5-star Euro NCAP safety rating

Tesla prides itself on producing some of the safest vehicles on the road today.

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Credit: Tesla Singapore/X

Tesla prides itself on producing some of the safest vehicles on the road today. Based on recent findings from the Euro NCAP, the 2025 Model 3 sedan continues this tradition, with the vehicle earning a 5-star overall safety rating from the agency.

Standout Safety Features

As could be seen on the Euro NCAP’s official website, the 2025 Model 3 achieved an overall score of 90% for Adult Occupants, 93% for Child Occupants, 89% for Vulnerable Road Users, and 87% for Safety Assist. This rating, as per the Euro NCAP, applies to the Model 3 Rear Wheel Drive, Long Range Rear Wheel Drive, Long Range All Wheel Drive, and Performance All Wheel Drive.

The Euro NCAP highlighted a number of the Model 3’s safety features, such as its Active Hood, which automatically lifts during collisions to mitigate injury risks to vulnerable road users, and Automatic Emergency Braking System, which now detects motorcycles through an upgraded algorithm. The Euro NCAP also mentioned the Model 3’s feature that prevents initial door opening if someone is approaching the vehicle’s blind spot.

Standout Safety Features

In a post on its official Tesla Europe & Middle East account, Tesla noted that the company is also introducing new features that make the Model 3 even safer than it is today. These include functions like head-on collision avoidance and crossing traffic AEB, as well as Child Left Alone Detection, among other safety features.

“We also introduced new features to improve Safety Assist functionality even further – like head-on collision avoidance & crossing traffic AEB – to detect & respond to potential hazards faster, helping avoid accidents in the first place. 

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“Lastly, we released Child Left Alone Detection – if an unattended child is detected, the vehicle will turn on HVAC & alert caregivers via phone app & the vehicle itself (flashing lights/audible alert). Because we’re using novel in-cabin radar sensing, your Tesla is able to distinguish between adult vs child – reduced annoyance to adults, yet critical safety feature for kids,” Tesla wrote in its post on X.

Below is the Euro NCAP’s safety report on the 2025 Tesla Model 3 sedan.

Euroncap 2025 Tesla Model 3 Datasheet by Simon Alvarez on Scribd

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USDOT Secretary visits Tesla Giga Texas, hints at national autonomous vehicle standards

The Transportation Secretary also toured the factory’s production lines and spoke with CEO Elon Musk.

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United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Sean Duffy recently visited Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas complex, where he toured the factory’s production lines and spoke with CEO Elon Musk. In a video posted following his Giga Texas visit, Duffy noted that he believes there should be a national standard for autonomous vehicles in the United States.

Duffy’s Giga Texas Visit

As could be seen in videos of his Giga Texas visit, the Transportation Secretary seemed to appreciate the work Tesla has been doing to put the United States in the forefront of innovation. “Tesla is one of the many companies helping our country reach new heights. USDOT will be right there all the way to make sure Americans stay safe,” Duffy wrote in a post on X. 

He also praised Tesla for its autonomous vehicle program, highlighting that “We need American companies to keep innovating so we can outcompete the rest of the world.”

National Standard

While speaking with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the Transportation Secretary stated that other autonomous ride-hailing companies have been lobbying for a national standard for self-driving cars. Musk shared the sentiment, stating that “It’d be wonderful for the United States to have a national set of rules for autonomous driving as opposed to 50 independent sets of rules on a state-by-state rules basis.”

Duffy agreed with the CEO’s point, stating that, “You can’t have 50 different rules for 50 different states. You need one standard.” He also noted that the Transportation Department has asked autonomous vehicle companies to submit data. By doing so, the USDOT could develop a standard for the entire United States, allowing self-driving cars to operate in a manner that is natural and safe.

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Tesla posts Optimus’ most impressive video demonstration yet

The humanoid robot was able to complete all the tasks through a single neural network.

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When Elon Musk spoke with CNBC’s David Faber in an interview at Giga Texas, he reiterated the idea that Optimus will be one of Tesla’s biggest products. Seemingly to highlight the CEO’s point, the official Tesla Optimus account on social media platform X shared what could very well be the most impressive demonstration of the humanoid robot’s capabilities to date.

Optimus’ Newest Demonstration

In its recent video demonstration, the Tesla Optimus team featured the humanoid robot performing a variety of tasks. These include household chores such as throwing the trash, using a broom and a vacuum cleaner, tearing a paper towel, stirring a pot of food, opening a cabinet, and closing a curtain, among others. The video also featured Optimus picking up a Model X fore link and placing it on a dolly.

What was most notable in the Tesla Optimus team’s demonstration was the fact that the humanoid robot was able to complete all the tasks through a single neural network. The robot’s actions were also learned directly from Optimus being fed data from first-person videos of humans performing similar tasks. This system should pave the way for Optimus to learn and refine new skills quickly and reliably.

Tesla VP for Optimus Shares Insight

In a follow-up post on X, Tesla Vice President of Optimus (Tesla Bot) Milan Kovac stated that one of the team’s goals is to have Optimus learn straight from internet videos of humans performing tasks, including footage captured in third person or by random cameras.

“We recently had a significant breakthrough along that journey, and can now transfer a big chunk of the learning directly from human videos to the bots (1st person views for now). This allows us to bootstrap new tasks much faster compared to teleoperated bot data alone (heavier operationally).

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“Many new skills are emerging through this process, are called for via natural language (voice/text), and are run by a single neural network on the bot (multi-tasking). Next: expand to 3rd person video transfer (aka random internet), and push reliability via self-play (RL) in the real-, and/or synthetic- (sim / world models) world,” Kovac wrote in his post on X.

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