Mexico's president announced Tuesday that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a major plant in the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the promise came in phone calls he had Friday and Monday with Tesla head Elon Musk. It would be Tesla's third plant outside the U.S., after one in Shanghai and one near Berlin.
The president said it would be a large investment without giving a dollar amount, and did not specify what the plant would produce. He said it was unclear if it would produce batteries, an industry Mexico desperately wants despite not having any current domestic supply of lithium."This is going to mean a considerable investment and many, many jobs," Lopez Obrador said. "My understanding is that it will be very big.
Lopez Obrador had previously said his government "simply won't grant permits" for any new plants there. But apparently Musk's proposal overrode the president's stance. The announcement was a disappointment for more water-rich southern states that had begun jockeying for the Tesla plant after Lopez Obrador's comments last week.
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