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Tesla’s subsequent automobile meeting plant will probably be in Mexico close to Monterrey, CEO Elon Musk introduced Wednesday.
“We’re super excited about it,” Musk stated throughout an investor day for the corporate. “We’ll continue to expand production at all of our existing factories. So this is not moving output to anywhere, from anywhere. This is supplemental production.”
The firm at the moment has capability to construct about 2 million automobiles a yr at 4 factories, in Fremont, California; Shanghai, China; Austin, Texas; and Berlin, Germany. It has set a objective of finally constructing 20 million automobiles a yr. The firm delivered simply over 1.3 million automobiles in 2022. The largest automaker on the planet by manufacturing quantity, Toyota, delivered simply over 10 million automobiles globally in 2022.
Tesla didn’t touch upon the price of the brand new plant. The news was a affirmation of plans introduced Tuesday by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for Tesla to construct its subsequent manufacturing unit within the nation. Reuters reported that Mexican officers stated the plant may value $1 billion.
The firm estimates to construct the extra crops wanted to succeed in 20 million autos will value a complete of $150 billion to $175 billion, together with the $28 billion in funding that it has already made in its historical past.
“Maybe this total investment looks large,” stated CFO Zachary Kirkhorn. “I think its quite small relative to our ambitions.”
The firm additionally introduced that earlier Wednesday it constructed 4 million autos in its historical past.
Shares of Tesla
(TSLA) slipped greater than 5% in after-hours buying and selling Wednesday, though that was up a bit from a bigger decline earlier than Musk’s announcement greater than three hours into the presentation. There had been hope by some traders that Tesla
(TSLA) would announce particulars a few subsequent era of autos. Musk declined to reply a query concerning the subsequent era automobile.
“We will have a proper sort of product event,” Musk stated. “We’d be jumping the gun if we were to answer that question.”
In response to a different query from an analyst, Musk stated he doesn’t anticipate Tesla ever having greater than 10 totally different autos in its product lineup. He derided the broad choices of competing automakers as merely a “shuffling” of many comparable fashions.
Source: www.cnn.com