Tesla oklahoma or texas. Electric car maker tesla inc. The cities of tulsa oklahoma and austin texas ap reports. The new factory will build teslas upcoming cybertruck pickup and will be a second us.
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. Austin seems to be in the lead. Tesla officials could not immediately be reached for comment but tesla chief executive elon musk previously hinted about a texas plant and texas governor greg abbott has spoken with musk about.
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. Tesla will build a new terafactory in either tulsa oklahoma or austin texas. Tesla could save a lot of money on the purchase price of the land and it could be using tulsa as leverage to get an even better deal on the texas property.
These two very different towns have one thing in. Has picked the austin texas area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5000 workers. The goal is for model y production to start at the selected location by the end of 2020.
Austin texas is a progressive city in a conservative state with a thriving software industry and a keep austin weird counterculture image. Manufacturing site for the model y small suv largely for distribution to the east coast. This would be the fifth manufacturing facility for the.
May 18 2020 tesla has reportedly narrowed it down to two cities to build a new us gigafactory for cybertruck production and they are austin texas and tulsa oklahoma. Tesla has selected two finalists in the hunt for its newest factory location.