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Tesla's Australian Gamble

The Tesla CEO's vow to build a storage plant in 100 days at a knockdown price shows how quickly the industry is developing.
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Deals hatched over Twitter generally don't work out that well. Elon Musk might have found an exception.

The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer promised Atlassian Corp. co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes last week that he could install a 100-megawatt-hour energy-storage plant within 100 days at a battery-pack price of $250 a kilowatt hour.