Tesla ( TSLA ) Chief Executive Elon Musk and President Trump disagree on climate change, but both businessmen say Puerto Rico needs a lot of help amid Hurricane Maria’s devastation of the island territory.
Musk, also the CEO of SpaceX, has offered to come to Puerto Rico’s rescue with solar-energy technology, via Tesla’s Solar City unit. Most of Puerto Rico remains without power, weeks after it was hit by Hurricane Maria.
Electric car maker Tesla last year merged with another Musk startup, SolarCity. The maker of solar panels specializes in storing large amounts of electricity in power banks.
“The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it…
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