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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.
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 treated there in the future, Musk wrote. He would sue the district.
Underlying this is a dispute over the reopening of the only electric car pioneer vehicle manufacturing facility in the United States. California Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he would allow factories to reopen in the state.
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.
The district also rejects limited operations.
Musk had written to employees in an email that he should restrict operations to 30 percent of the normal workforce per shift. Alameda health authorities had said he was not yet allowed to return to work because restrictions on containing the coronavirus were still in effect.
A district official said 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 be discussed.
Musk had repeatedly criticized the blockade as a serious threat to American companies and as unconstitutional. The businessman is known to cause a sensation and confusion with powerful opinions on Twitter. Last week, he made a series of idiosyncratic tweets that caused Tesla’s market value to drop by the billions of dollars.
In 2018, Musk even got into trouble with SEC tweets. According to an agreement with the SEC, you actually have to have the company approve relevant tweets in advance.
Tesla is also currently working on the construction of a plant in Grünheide, near Berlin, which will go into operation in 2021. Up to 12,000 employees are expected to produce up to 500,000 electric cars there each year.
