No one questions that Elon Musk is perhaps the greatest living industrial and technological innovator and he is in the running for greatest to have ever lived.

This article will make the case that a deep partnership between Elon Musk and China over batteries and electric vehicles could massively improve the air pollution situation, save millions of lives per year, reduce air pollution and global warming.

I have written another article that tries to simplify the answer of why China and Tesla can help fix each others most important problems.

The construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory to build electric cars has started in China and could be completed in 6-12 months instead of 2 years or more.

If this construction is completed and then smoothly ramped up to full production in record time, then this could be the start of a beautiful friendship and powerful partnership.