Tesla’s Mexican plans
With the green light from local authorities, Tesla intends to build its giga-gigafactory in Mexico, the largest plant ever built so far
Woe betide anyone talking about low-cost and obviously non-unionized labor. What is certain is that Tesla's choice to focus on the Shanghai gigafactory to keep up with the impressive production plan wanted by Elon Musk to remain competitive and now to open a new hub in Mexico, destined to become the largest in the constellation of sites that the Gruppo is opening up all over the world, they seem to be going in that direction.
THE DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP WITH TRADE UNIONS
Tesla, it is known, has never loved unions. In the USA, as Uil recalls, the company tried to ban employees of the Fremont plant in California from wearing t-shirts with the United Automobile Workers symbol during a unionization campaign.
THE SCANDINAVIANS ARE HEATING UP
Elon Musk himself, owner of Tesla, some time ago via X had threatened the workers in his gigafactories of losing their stock options if they formed a union. The National Labor Relations Board then ruled that the South African tycoon had violated federal labor law, ordering him to delete the tweet. And Tesla now sees its activities paralyzed in Scandinavia , again due to union claims.
ELON MUSK REFUSES IN MEXICO
If Northern Europe is causing headaches for Elon Musk's company, the Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has just authorized the change of use of the land intended to house the Tesla Manufacturing México factory. A 261-hectare parcel of land currently forested within a 561-hectare property outside important natural protected areas, namely Cerro la Mota and Cumbres de Monterrey, will be able to accommodate the construction of a gigafactory in Santa Catarina , in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE TESLA “GIGA-GIGAFACTORY” IN MEXICO
There has been talk of deforestation of the area and has guaranteed suitable measures to protect the flora and fauna, including the creation of a nursery for 30 thousand plant species.
And given that Chinese rivals are pressing on, with BYD having now exceeded the production capacity of Musk's gigafactories by 1 million units (and will soon build its first plant in Europe, in Hungary), Tesla will also have to run, completing the new site productive over the next 36 months. The largest factory in the world of the draft car group should be built in Nuevo Leon, whose lines should be used, between 2026 and 2027, for the production of the Cybertruck and the Model 2.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/i-piani-messicani-di-tesla/ on Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:35:28 +0000.