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Mexico Governor Asks Tesla to Begin Construction: El Financiero

A billboard announcing the arrival of the American electric car maker Tesla is seen in Monterrey, state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on March 12, 2023.
Photographer: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images

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By Amy Stillman

February 24, 2024 at 7:04 PM UTC

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Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia has asked Tesla Inc. to announce the start of construction soon of its planned factory in the Mexican state, national newspaper El Financiero reported.

“I asked Tesla to come by in March at the latest to make an announcement around laying the first stone and they didn’t tell me no,” Garcia said Saturday during the inauguration of a recreational project in the area of the La Huasteca ecological park in Santa Catarina, where Tesla plans to build its factory.