Will Tesla cars be produced mostly here? See my Comment #74.
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Yes. Tesla is doing both their auto production and their battery production in the USA.
Further, net offshoring ended last year.
A convergence of technological changes from advanced robotics to 3d manufacturing will make it important for manufacturers to produce their goods nearer to their market. The supply chains currently are too long.
Over 50% of US manufacturers in China are currently at some stage of reshoring their production.
There’s something like 2 trillion dollars of US corporate money parked overseas that won’t be repatriated for investment in the USA until tax laws are changed to make it profitable for them to repatriate their money and invest it in the USA.
Glad to hear Tesla is doing it here. The world is going through an extensive sort out. China costing too much, won’t take our plastics to recycle. Bangladesh and Vietnam are both cheaper and getting business from China as well as us. China, Japan and S. Korea are getting together for economic planning. China heavy in Africa and central Asia, even some in S. America. How will robotics improve the employment situation. There is a story about Walter Reuther, UAW, touring an auto plant with Henry Ford. Ford was raving about his automated plant and quality product. So, said Reuther, who is going to buy the cars with no workers earning money? Now they are about to launch self driving autos.
Of course, we went through the same thing 40 and 50 years ago when the NEw England textile and furniture making moved to the South, but then eventually overseas. I imagine the West Coast dock strikes recently made some wish their supply chains were not so long. Maybe Walmart and other biggies will decide US made is better if it is much more reliable. Of course, if their $21,000,000 CEO is representative of pay near and at the top, they will still have a hard time paying their workers a living wage with which to buy their products.