Tesla’s shareholder meeting to consider the acquisition of SolarCity will take place in Fremont, California on Thursday, at 1:00 p.m. PST. For investors who won’t be at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, the company will also webcast the meeting live at tesla.com/shareholdermeeting.
SolarCity will be hosting its shareholder meeting to discuss the merger in Foster City, California, two hours before Tesla’s meeting.
Tesla has ambitious plans for its SolarCity acquisition, essentially planning to be the world’s first integrated sustainable-energy company, from energy generation to energy storage to transportation solutions. Today, Tesla is already the world leader for electric-car production when measured by kilowatt-hour battery capacity delivered.
Further, Tesla entered the energy-storage market with its Powerwall and Powerpack in 2015. And by the end of this year, Tesla will likely have already finished deploying the two-largest lithium-ion battery-storage installations in the world. Including projects being deployed now, Tesla has deployed 300 megawatt-hours of Tesla batteries in 18 countries.
With SolarCity, Tesla plans to also bring to market a solar roof, which the two companies jointly unveiled in October. The solar roof differs from traditional solar panels in that solar cells are actually the roof itself. With Tesla’s solar roof, solar tiles are integrated into the roof and are nearly indistinguishable from high-end roofing options.
