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Tesla will build its $1.1 billion Cybertruck plant near Austin, Texas, and end an intense festival with neighboring Oklahoma, announced Wednesday night chief executive of electric automaker Elon Musk.
The 2,000-acre site on the Colorado River is about thirteen minutes from downtown Austin, Musk said in Tesla’s profit call in the second quarter.
“It will be an ecological paradise … open to the public,” he said.
Musk said Tesla would be a finalist for the Tulsa, Oklahoma site for long-term production.
Musk and his team met earlier this month with any of the states, who were fighting over the plant landings.
Tesla’s new Cybertruck and semi-resistant truck, such as the Model 3 and Model Y cars for eastern North America, will be built at the Texas plant, Musk said Wednesday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott welcomed the news. “Tesla is one of the most advanced and exciting corporations in the world, and we are proud to welcome your team to the state of Texas,” he said in a statement.
Oklahoma Commerce Secretary Sean Kouplen said in a statement that the state would actively sue Tesla’s supplier base to convince them to move to Oklahoma.
Both states have introduced incentive programs, adding tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks, to attract what is now the world’s most valuable automaker, measured through market capitalization.
Tesla told Texas officials that the plant would create at least 5,000 jobs, while Oklahoma officials were informed of the creation of at least 7,000 jobs in the short term and up to 20,000 jobs later.