Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that the organization is moving its base camp from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, where it has been building another processing plant for somewhat more than a year. 

Musk said Tesla will keep on working its electric vehicle industrial facility in Fremont, CA, and that he even designs to attempt to build creation there by 50%. "Just all things considered, however, we will be proceeding to grow our exercises in California," he said during the organization's yearly investor meeting. "So this doesn't involve Tesla leaving California." 

The move implies Tesla's home will at this point don't be the state where its vehicles are the most famous; all things being equal, Tesla will be settled in a state where it can't legitimately sell its vehicles straightforwardly to buyers. 

Musk had recently taken steps to haul Tesla's whole tasks out of California in 2020, on account of how fervently he contradicted the haven set up orders the state used to assist protect with peopling ahead of schedule in the Covid pandemic. Tesla even sued the province that the organization's California production line is in as a type of dissent. 

Musk himself moved to Texas last year, as SpaceX significantly expanded its quality in the southern tip of the state. The Tesla CEO said at one point that he thought California had become as well "self-satisfied" regarding its occupants and organizations. 

Tesla began building its next US Gigafactory outside Austin in 2020 and has gained an extraordinary measure of headway in the mediating year. "We will make a natural heaven here.. on the Colorado River," a reference to how the organization intends to open up pieces of the land it purchased to the general population. Musk said Thursday that Tesla is likewise checking out accomplishing more "significant establishments" of battery stockpiling like the one initially detailed by Bloomberg recently.