Tesla has picked Texas as the site for its largest auto assembly plant where it has vowed to employ at least 5,000 workers and will get more than $60million in tax breaks from Travis County and a local school district over the next decade.
Work on the plant, which will be over 4 million square feet, is already underway, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday evening.
‘It’s going to be an ecological paradise … open to the public,’ he said about the new factory on a 2,100-acre (85-hectacre) site along the Colorado River, which is about 13 minutes from downtown Austin.
Employees will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup and will be a second US manufacturing site for the Model Y small SUV, largely for distribution to the East Coast.
Tesla announced it has picked the Austin, Texas area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers. This Martin Marietta property at Texas 130 and Harold Green Road was previously reported as a possible location for the new Tesla
Musk has reportedly been happy with Texas where Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (left) has not allowed cities and counties to impose local orders that would close businesses due to coronavirus
The new factory will be Tesla’s biggest so far, although it may not employ as many workers as the 10,000 at its factory in Fremont, California (pictured)
Musk did not put a number on how many vehicles the facility would produce.
‘Long term, a lot,’ Musk said.
Tesla doesn’t have a lot of time to get the factory running if it wants to meet target production dates. The company says on its website that the Cybertruck will be available starting late next year. Tesla has often missed promised production dates in the past.
It was previously reported that a Martin Marietta property at Texas 130 and Harold Green Road was a possible location for the new Tesla manufacturing plant.
The new factory will be Tesla’s biggest so far, although it may not employ as many workers as the 10,000 at its factory in Fremont, California. The electric car maker has said it wants the new factory to be in the center of the country and closer to eastern markets.
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