After months of speculation about the installation of the Tesla Gigafactory in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, this Tuesday in the conference with analysts, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, gave clarity about this investment and anticipated that it will be put on pause.
“I think we have to see what happens with the election (in the United States). Trump has said that he may impose tariffs on vehicles produced in Mexico. So it doesn’t make sense to invest a lot in Mexico if that’s going to happen,” Musk said during the conference.
Through his social network, X (formerly Twitter), Musk has openly expressed his support for the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump; while being very critical of the former Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, and the now virtual candidate Kamala Harris.
In March 2023, precisely through – Monterrey) for installation. This Gigafactory was planned to begin activity from 2026 in a model that was yet to be announced.
This story repeats itself with the installation of an automotive plant with the arrival of Trump. In 2017, when the Republican candidate assumed the presidency of the United States, the pressures on the American automotive industry motivated Ford to abandon an investment in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, for 1,600 million dollars, and where part of this investment, 700 million dollars, was channeled into a plant in Michigan to produce electric and autonomous vehicles.
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