Musk Threatens Lawsuit, Relocation of Tesla HQ (05.09.20)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
➤ Elon Musk threatens to file lawsuit with Alameda county over continued production restrictions
➤ Additionally, Elon makes plans to relocate Tesla's headquarters outside of California
➤ Elon mentions Texas, further alluding to a possible Gigafactory in Texas
➤ Alameda county contact form, please be respectful: http://www.acphd.org/contact-acphd/contact-form.aspx
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody Rob mower here with a special Saturday episode as we continue to get more and more breaking news on Tesla's |
| 0:13.0 | production status in California this time it seems to have escalated again with |
| 0:17.3 | some new tweets from Elon Musk this Saturday morning. In yesterday's |
| 0:20.9 | episode we talked about how on Alameda County's Zoom call yesterday, |
| 0:24.4 | the interim health officer of Alameda County, Dr. Eric Capon, said that they had not yet given |
| 0:29.0 | Tesla the green light to begin manufacturing despite the fact that Tesla had emailed their workers with their plans to |
| 0:34.4 | return about 30% of workforce for each shift based on California as a state entering into phase 2, |
| 0:40.5 | which allows manufacturers to restart. |
| 0:43.0 | But of course, Alameda County can operate differently if they choose under that state order. |
| 0:47.0 | So Elon has a few tweets today. |
| 0:48.6 | They are still ongoing, but I'll capture what we have right now. |
| 0:51.4 | Elon in response to a couple tweets on the subject today said quote |
| 0:54.3 | Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected and |
| 0:58.8 | ignorant quote unquote interim health officer of Alameda County is acting contrary to the governor, the |
| 1:03.8 | president, our constitutional freedoms, and just plain common sense." |
| 1:07.2 | In a second tweet, Elon then added, quote, frankly, this is the final straw. |
| 1:11.9 | Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs |
| 1:15.0 | to Texas slash Nevada immediately. |
| 1:17.1 | If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, |
| 1:20.0 | it will be dependent on how Tesla is treated in the future. |
| 1:23.2 | Tesla is the last carmaker left in California." |
| 1:25.8 | End quote. |
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