Tesla boss Elon Musk threatens to move the company headquarters due to a dispute over the reopening of a factory. Tesla will move its corporate headquarters and future programs from California to Texas or Nevada with immediate effect, Musk wrote on Twitter.
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He left the future of the Fremont plant in Alameda, California, with around 10,000 employees open. That will depend on how Tesla will be dealt with there in the future, Musk wrote. He would sue the district.
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The background to this is a dispute over the reopening of the electric car pioneer’s only vehicle manufacturing facility in the United States. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said Thursday that it would allow factories to open in the state again.
However, the Alameda district had decided that the “shutdown” should continue until the end of May, with the exception of essential businesses, and had refused to reopen the Tesla plant near San Francisco as of Friday.
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District also refuses limited operations
Musk had written to employees in an email that restricted operations with 30 percent of the normal workforce per shift should then be resumed. Alameda’s health authorities had said that it was not yet allowed to go back to work because restrictions to contain the coronavirus were still in place.
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A district official had said on Friday that health officials had had numerous conversations with Tesla and recommended that Covid 19 infection numbers be monitored for at least a week and that safe ways to resume production should be discussed.
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Musk had repeatedly criticized the “lockdown” as a serious threat to US companies and as unconstitutional.
Tesla is also currently working on the construction of a plant in Grünheide near Berlin, which is scheduled to go into operation in 2021. Up to 12,000 employees are expected to produce up to 500,000 electric cars there every year.
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