Is tesla moving to texas or oklahoma. The cities of tulsa oklahoma and austin texas ap reports. Tesla told officials in travis county texas the automaker wants to invest about 1 billion to build a 4 million to 5 million square foot vehicle assembly plant employing 5000 people on the. Tesla has selected two finalists in the hunt for its newest factory location.
Tesla will now move its hq and future programs to texasnevada immediately musk wrote on twitter on may 9. Tesla is eyeing austin texas and tulsa oklahoma as two potential homes for its next production facility. Tesla cut the finalists down to tulsa oklahoma and austin texas but even though the lone star state won out oklahoma plans to notch a different win.
Electric vehicle maker tesla wants to start building a large vehicle assembly plant in the southwestern us as early as the third quarter of this year the company told texas officials in documents. Kevin stitt is inviting tesla to move its headquarters to oklahoma. Both cities are attractive to tesla because theyre centrally located in the us.
The company is currently based in california. But there are challenges in that market. Sean szymkowski july 23 2020 742 am.
This would be the fifth manufacturing facility for the. If we even retain fremont manufacturing activity at all it will be dependent on.