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Musk Chooses Texas Site for Tesla’s Cybertruck Assembly Plant
- Electric-car maker picks Austin area over Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Facility to generate over $1 billion investment, governor says
Elon Musk gestures while introducing the Tesla Cybertruck in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019.
Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
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Tesla Inc. chose a Texas site for the electric-car maker’s second U.S. auto factory and production base for Cybertruck, the model Elon Musk will aim at Detroit’s loyal pickup buyers.
The company will build the plant near the city of Austin, Musk said during Tesla’s second-quarter earnings webcast Wednesday. The carmaker has for months been scouting locations for a facility that will produce the Cybertruck, Semi and Roadster, all of which are still in development, and the Model Y crossover for customers on the East Coast.