In 2014, Tesla introduced plans to construct an enormous battery manufacturing plant, setting off fierce competitors for what was then one of many nations greatest economic-development prizes. The corporate narrowed the finalists to 5 states -- Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas -- and Nevada prevailed.

Final month, Musk hinted {that a} manufacturing facility could possibly be in-built Texas. The Texas Enterprise Fund, created by the states legislature underneath former Gov. Rick Perry, has grow to be one of many largest payers of economic-development incentives within the nation. Texas supplied $2.three million to entice SpaceX, the rocket firm Musk based and runs, to find a launch facility in Brownsville, on the Gulf Coast close to the Mexican border. Teslas chip crew is predicated each in Palo Alto, Calif., the place Tesla is headquartered, and in Austin, Texas.

Teslas sole U.S. auto meeting plant is in Fremont, Calif., the place the corporate makes the Mannequin S, X and three and has begun producing the Mannequin Y...