Elon Musk gestures at the arrival of the Tesla Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California, on November 21, 2019.
Photographer: Frederic J. Brown / AFP Getty Images
Elon Musk gestures when presenting the Tesla Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California, on November 21, 2019.
Photographer: Frederic J. Brown / AFP Getty Images
Photographer: Frederic J. Brown / AFP Getty Images
Tesla Inc. has selected one in Texas for the electric car manufacturer’s current U.S. automaker’s auto plant and Cybertruck’s production base, the Elon Musk style will target Detroit’s unwavering pickup buyers.
The company will build the plant near the city of Austin, Musk said in the online transmission of Tesla’s second quarter effects on Wednesday. The automaker has been looking for months for places for a facility that will produce the Cybertruck, the Semi and the Roadster, all of which are still in development, and the Model Y crossover for East Coast customers.
Tesla said in early June that the company targeted the state of Lone Star and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The automaker told local Austin-area officials that they would begin structuring in the third quarter of this year a four- to five million-square-foot plant that will employ five thousand workers.
“Texas has the most productive country and we have built an economic environment that allows companies like Tesla to innovate and succeed,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in an email statement. Tesla will invest more than a billion dollars, he said.
The plant will be Tesla’s fourth for vehicle assembly. The company purchased its first plant in Fremont, California, from Toyota Motor Corp. in the wake of the global currency crisis of just $42 million. Production of Model 3 sedans began on the outskirts of Shanghai this year and plans to begin car production near Berlin next year.
Tesla unveiled a prototype cybertruck in November, and Musk presented it as a radically different edition of a vehicle type in which Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV account for much of its profits. The demonstration of what they intended to be unbreakable stained glass windows did not pass as planned but was still controlled to generate mass publicity.
Musk’s statement that Tesla would build the plant led cities and states across the country to submit competitive offers for the project. The resolution recalls the company’s announcement in 2014 that it planned to build a massive battery plant. The automaker chose Nevada after the state filed $1.3 billion in incentives.
The search for the Cybertruck plant began before Musk threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters and long-term systems to Texas or Nevada after a California county prevented the automaker from reopening its Fremont plant amid the coronavirus pandemic. A few days after its explosion, the company challenged county fitness officials and restarted production.
On Wednesday, Musk Tesla would continue to grow in California.
– With Edward Ludlow and Paul Stinson