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Elon Musk: “China makes almost all the solar [panels].”

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — 1/22/2026

Published | Video Starts at 18:25

Well, unfortunately in the US the, the tariff barriers for solar panels are extremely high and that makes the economics of deploying solar so artificially high because China makes almost all the solar [panels]. and an attack that. What would it take for Europe or the US to build it commercially if it's that scale? Yeah, I think. (18:25–18:28)

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