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Report: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas:
Elon Musk's recent clashes with officials in Alameda County, home of Tesla's Fremont factory, may have given him a heightened sense of urgency to find Tesla's next US factory. On Friday, several news outlets reported that Tesla was narrowing in on a new location to build the Model Y crossover and Tesla's forthcoming Cybertruck.
The reports started with Electrek, a pro-Tesla site whose co-founder Fred Lambert has good connections inside the company. Just before 3pm Eastern time, Lambert reported that Tesla had settled on Austin, Texas as the site of its next factory.
"We are told that the decision for the site is not set in stone since Tesla was apparently given a few options in the greater Austin area," Lambert wrote. "But Musk is said to want to start construction extremely soon and aims to have Model Y vehicles coming out of the plant by the end of the year."
That would be a remarkably short amount of time for any car company to build a new factory from scratch. Last year, it took Tesla almost a year to build its Shanghai factory—and that was considered unusually fast.
[...] Hours after Electrek's story ran, three news organizations—TechCrunch, CNBC, and the Associated Press—all published stories stating that Tesla was still considering Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"A final decision has not been made, but Austin and Tulsa are among the finalists," Techcrunch's Kirsten Korosec writes, citing "multiple sources."
[...] Both Texas and Oklahoma have right-to-work laws that allow employees to opt out of paying union dues. These laws could help Tesla discourage workers in its new factory from forming a union. California's laws are more friendly to union organizing.
Elon Musk SpaceX already has two locations in Texas: The Boca Chica site is rapidly ramping up development of Starship and the McGregor location has their rocket testing facility.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 18 2020, @08:27PM (8 children)
I'm happy that Elon Musk is moving industry back to the United States! Progressivania has been stealing American worker's jobs for even longer than China.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @08:34PM (7 children)
Powered by red pills [latimes.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 18 2020, @08:42PM (5 children)
Well, Lilly isn't very likeable anyway. And, the red pills aren't hers, even. All she did was co-produce the movie. Not like she was the author or anything . . .
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @09:08PM (3 children)
Republicans. The national shame of the US.
Do your kids even talk to you anymore?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 18 2020, @09:19PM (2 children)
No, and I wish you would follow your parent's example! Get off the lawn, kid!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @02:50AM (1 child)
Gee, I'm shocked. I bet I've read about you in a few Reddit comments about asshole boomer parents.
I know it is a long shot, but you could try dropping the asshole routine and try out the phrase, "I'm sorry" or "I apologize" and if that is too far then at the very least consider branching out with "I was wrong." There is your positive message for the day. Good luck.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 19 2020, @04:26PM
Clowns like you have routines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @09:22PM
He co-directed with his brother, as in Eberts review "The directors are Larry and Andy Wachowski" [rogerebert.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:20AM
Someone whose best times were 20+ years ago,
supposedly a lady,hurls a F-bomb in public at two people arguably more influential in this time, one of them the President's daughter, and the paper of record in the second largest city covers it like a high school fight.In saner times, it would have been an embarrassing lapse of judgment on Wachowski's part that the respectable press would not have covered. Now its A-OK, because everyone is supposed to hate Ivanka's father.
And jeez, I just find out that both the Wachowski brothers now pretend they are women. LA always was a place of projecting a personal fantasy image, but the question whether they did that out of mental illness, or for marketing reasons would be far more interesting for the paper to cover.
Guess the "stinging response" fell flat.