He got a great deal on their current factory in Fremont after it was abandoned by Toyota.”””
IIRC, that plant was a FORD plant before GM & TOYOTA too it over as a joint operation.
Calif lawmakers are threatening Mush with all kinds of punishment if he DOES NOT turn his facilities into UNION operations.
MUSK will not do that. NOT in Calif NOR in Michigan.
Besides, he cannot expand up or out, so he has outgrown that facility. He actually has TENTS on the land being used to work on chassis’.
Fremont Assembly was built by GM. It was never a Ford operation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Assembly
Fords were built not far away in Milpitas from 53 to 83 they made a Lot of cars and trucks there.