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Tesla Officially Announces Gigafactory Mexico to Build Next-Gen Electric Vehicle
Electrek ^ | Mar 1 2023 | Fred Lambert

Posted on 03/02/2023 4:38:56 PM PST by nickcarraway

Tesla has officially announced “Gigafactory Mexico” to build its next-gen vehicle platform to support new models.

We knew it was coming for months, and it was confirmed by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador yesterday, but now Tesla has made it official.

At Tesla’s Investor Day today, the automaker announced that the project, now called Gigafactory Mexico, will be built just outside Monterrey in Nuevo León.

Tesla has released the render of the factory above, but it hasn’t released any detail about the factory other than it will be used to produce vehicles based on the automaker’s new vehicle platform.

The timeline for the new project also hasn’t been released, but we know that a quick regulatory process and road to construction and production have been part of the negotiation process with the government.

The automaker is going to try to recreate its success with Gigafactory Shanghai and Gigafactory Texas, which Tesla has been able to bring to production relatively quickly.

One of the reasons for choosing Monterrey is its closeness to Gigafactory Texas and Tesla’s headquarters, which is about a seven-hour drive away from the new plant site. Tesla has also managed to negotiate an interesting deal that will allow efficiency for travel between the sites.

As we previously reported, people crossing the border between Texas and Nuevo Leon were surprised to see not just the usual marked lanes for cars and trucks but also one marked “Tesla.”

Tesla Mexico border We ended up finding out that Tesla had struck a deal with the state of Nuevo Leon to have its own lane at the border crossing in order to reduce wait times for cargo going through the border. Or at least that was the explanation of Ivan Rivas, the economy minister of Nuevo Leon.

While it’s true that Tesla has several suppliers in the state, as we reported at the time, we suspected that the move might have more to do with Tesla potentially investing in a factory in the state.

Now it has been confirmed with Gigafactory Mexico.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 03/02/2023 4:38:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Does it come with a meth supply?


2 posted on 03/02/2023 4:45:06 PM PST by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: nickcarraway

At least there won’t be any money going to unions and from there to democrat politicians.


3 posted on 03/02/2023 4:46:05 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: nickcarraway

Pretty soon it is going to be nearly impossible for Mexicans to steal US jobs.


4 posted on 03/02/2023 4:47:47 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

Will Joe Biden print up enough pesos so Americans can buy them?


5 posted on 03/02/2023 4:49:59 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

There were rumors that Elon Musk would go to California.

Like many, if not most Musk Rumors, they were wrong and off the wall.


6 posted on 03/02/2023 4:54:25 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats Have Already Won the 2024 Election, Regardless of Whom, Either Party Runs!!!)
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To: Brian Griffin

Wondering when Americans will start escaping to mexico for a better life


7 posted on 03/02/2023 4:55:10 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: nickcarraway

Tesla almost closed their Kalifornia car factory when the democRATS refused to let workers return to the Tesla factory. Kalifornia relented, and Tesla factory workers continued during the Plandemic. The idea of operating anything else in Kalifornia?? No Way.

There used to be 12-14 automobile factories in California. Now, Kalifornia has one, Tesla. The American South has many auto factories that do not insist upon unions.


8 posted on 03/02/2023 5:02:10 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Grampa Dave

Well, he did go to California. He just reopened an HQ in California and did a press conference with his 2024 presidential candidate, Gavin Newsom.


9 posted on 03/02/2023 5:06:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That he did.

California’s governor wanted more.


10 posted on 03/02/2023 5:19:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats Have Already Won the 2024 Election, Regardless of Whom, Either Party Runs!!!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

No.

After most other local counties let up the covid bs regs, alameda had one uppitiy heath employee tell musk they still had to obey the bs regs. He said he’d leave, and then alameda let up with 24 hours.

He was always just taking the hq out of the state. The numi plant was going to stay.


11 posted on 03/02/2023 5:27:53 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Ya’ll knew he was installed via fraud, and chose to do nothing. Enjoy the roller coaster ride.)
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To: nickcarraway

Just a “giga”? Why not a terafactory, or a petafactory?

Bigger is better!


12 posted on 03/02/2023 5:31:30 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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The Work ethic in Mexico is better than Post Covid California US and Engineers will be happy to move to Monterrey and live like California for 1/2 the cost of living.

It isn’t like they haven’t been ordering their fast food in spanish for the last 15 years.


13 posted on 03/02/2023 6:19:59 PM PST by UNGN
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The Work ethic in Mexico is better than Post Covid California US and Engineers will be happy to move to Monterrey and live like California for 1/2 the cost of living.

It isn’t like they haven’t been ordering their fast food in spanish for the last 15 years.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 6:19:59 PM PST by UNGN
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To: nicollo

“ just a “giga”? Why not a terafactory, or a petafactory?”

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it eleventy billion times…we don’t take kindly to hyperbole nor sarcasm ‘round these parts


15 posted on 03/02/2023 6:23:25 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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