Fun Fremont Fact

The former GM assembly plant, now owned by Tesla, was opened in 1962.  Here is a brief item about it from Wikipedia:

Fremont Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Fremont, California. Groundbreaking for the plant occurred in September 1961.^[1] It was the new site for production in the San Francisco area in 1962 when production moved from the older Oakland Assembly. Production continued through March 1 of 1982 when the plant was closed after production problems. Partially demolished (south end and water tower), the remaining plant was refurbished as the more successful NUMMI joint-venture with Toyota in 1984^[2] and later became the Tesla Factory, Tesla Motors' automobile plant in 2010.

They produced over 1,000 cars a day which I believe NUMMI did as well.  Tesla hopes to reach that production rate in the future.




Notice how bad the air quality was in this 1972 photo.  This changed in the late 70s with the advent of catalytic converters and the required unleaded fuel.  This really did clean up the Bay Area air.