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Elon Musk, owner of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, presented this Wednesday the plans and the concept of what will be its first plant in Mexicolocated in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León.
With a investment of 5 billion dollarsTesla seeksexpand its operations outside the United States, supported by the strategic connection of Nuevo León and the benefits granted by the T-MEC.
“We are planning a grand opening. Tesla’s next gigafactory will be near Monterrey in Nuevo León.We will continue to expand production at our other existing plants. The factory in Mexico will not supply any, it will be supplementary, to be clear,” said the richest man in the world.
Tesla’s next-generation car will be manufactured in Mexico
During the Investor Day 2023 and with the presence ofThe Governor of Nuevo León, Samuel GarcíaThe Tesla team said that the plant in Mexico plans to produce its next-generation cars.
“In Mexico our next generation of vehicles will be built, but we will also build it in our other plants. This is really about getting everything on track and moving forward in the coming years,” they added.
“Beyond assembling the cars and the batteries they contain, it is also reconfiguring everything that is done. It will have a different way of building in the future,” they added.
Musk stated that in the future they will need to manufacture their electric cars in less time. “We have a variant of the way we are producing and we will reconfigure it in an efficient way.”
“We are focusing on making it an accessible car, this is the difficult part of producing them. We have to have the entire production chain ready to manufacture them,” he added.
Gigafactory in Santa Catarina will help with global expansion
The first Tesla gigafactory in Mexico will help the company’s global expansion in an increasingly competitive market and with much more affordable models, highlighted tycoon Elon Musk.
“We are very happy to announce that the Tesla gigafactory will be in Mexico, very close to Monterrey. We are trying to increase the production of all our factories, this is a movement that will help our global expansion,” he stressed.
Samuel Garcia welcomes Tesla
For his part, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, present at the event, welcomed Tesla through their social networks.
“WelcomeTesla.Welcome the future.Welcome to the new Nuevo León,” the governor tweeted.
“The richest man in the world trusted Nuevo León, Mexico for its new gigafactory and its latest generation vehicle. The future is bright. Thank you,” the governor later tweeted.
Tesla will install a plant in northern Mexicothe country’s authorities announced on Tuesday, marking a push by the electric vehicle manufacturer to expand its operations outside the United States, with an investment that could exceed 5 billion dollars.
He President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He said he spoke twice in the last three days with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as anticipated. Reutersand reached an agreement, after having said that it would not grant permits to build a factory in the northern state of Nuevo León due to lack of water.
Likewise, the governor of Nuevo León welcomed Tesla and its owner Elon Musk after confirming that the gigafactory will be installed in Santa Catarina, and stressed that the entity, in addition to being industrial capital, will be a center of economic development.
“Welcome Tesla to Nuevo León. Welcome Elon Musk. Thank you for letting us dream that our children will be the astronauts, scientists, programmers and engineers who are already building the future.”
With information from: Reuters
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