Tesla Chooses Texas For 2nd US Vehicle Assembly Plant

[Elderberry]

CBS DFW 7/22/2020

Electric car maker Tesla has chosen Texas as the site for its largest auto assembly plant that will employ at least 5,000 workers.

The new factory will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup and will be a second U.S. manufacturing site for the Model Y small SUV, largely for distribution to the East Coast.

Tesla will build on a 2,100-acre site in Travis County near Austin and will get more than $60 million in tax breaks from the county and a local school district over the next decade. State incentives also are possible for the plant, which will be over 4 million square feet.

The company has pledged to invest $1.1 billion and said it will pay a minimum wage of $15 per hour to employees and provide health insurance, paid leave and other benefits.

The area that’s home to the University of Texas at Austin and tech companies such as Dell Inc. was a candidate for the plant all along, but Tulsa, Oklahoma, emerged in mid-May as another possibility.

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

Texas needs to impose an export fee when each is shipped out of state, as I do not see many Texans buying this Back-To-The-Future truck.

[PeteS in CA]

Yeah, I don't see many people who use their pickup to carry stuff around and occasionally haul big stuff being able to use that. So no contractors or farmers, no appliance or computer service people ...

The classic Triumph TR7 was dubbed the "Flying Wedge". This Tesla is more like a Dying Wedge.