{"id":39510,"date":"2023-01-04T05:57:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39510"},"modified":"2023-01-04T05:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T10:57:48","slug":"tesla-defends-impact-california-musk-alienates-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39510","title":{"rendered":"Tesla defends its impact on California as Musk alienates blue states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla released a new blog post defending its impact on California and says that it now employs 47,000 people in the state.<\/p>\n

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California has been critical to Tesla\u2019s success over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

The state has helped Tesla in its time of need and its strong climate initiatives and EV incentives have made it the biggest market for electric vehicles in the US and, therefore, Tesla\u2019s biggest market.<\/p>\n

However, the love story between Tesla and California ended somewhat abruptly in 2020. Early measures to curb the spread of Covid 19 resulted in Tesla having to close its Fremont factory, which angered CEO Elon Musk to the point of threatening to move Tesla from California<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By 2021, Tesla delivered on the threat and moved its headquarters to Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The automaker always maintained that it is still heavily investing in California and walked back threats made by Musk to even move Fremont factory at one point.<\/p>\n

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But the behavior of Musk over the last year resulted in Tesla\u2019s popularity in what is still its most important US market plummeting. <\/p>\n

Since Tesla\u2019s move to Texas, the CEO has made it clear that he is now Republican and even encouraged people to vote Republican during the last election \u2013 a rare thing for a tech CEO to officially take a side like that. <\/p>\n

This didn\u2019t help Tesla\u2019s case in blue states, like California. On top of it, Musk called the Democratic party \u201cthe party of hate\u201d and he regularly makes negative comments on the left on his popular Twitter page.<\/p>\n

In an apparent damage control effort, Tesla released a rare blog post<\/a> defending its impact on the state of California.<\/p>\n

In the post, the company listed all its primary operations in the state:<\/p>\n

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Tesla\u2019s footprint in California is made up of Megapack production and vehicle castings in Lathrop, hardware and software engineering in Palo Alto, vehicle and battery manufacturing in Fremont, battery development and testing in San Diego and vehicle design in Hawthorne.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tesla listed some of its economic impacts in the state of California based on IHS research:<\/p>\n