{"id":209978,"date":"2021-10-08T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=209978"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:48:07","slug":"tesla-moving-headquarters-from-california-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2021\/10\/tesla-moving-headquarters-from-california-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Moving Headquarters from California to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a surprise to no one, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is moving the EV company\u2019s headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, although he didn’t provide a timeframe for the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk told shareholders the company will move its non-manufacturing operations from California to Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“I’m excited to announce that we’re moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas,” Musk told the company’s annual meeting, which was held at Giga Texas, while sporting a massive belt buckle reading \u201cDon\u2019t Mess With T\u201d with the \u201cT\u201d being the Tesla logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk says a lack of space and the high cost of living for employees are the primary drivers for the move, but it doesn\u2019t hurt that the company\u2019s spending billions of dollars on\u00a0a massive campus just outside Austin, Texas<\/a><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0to build the Model Y and, eventually, the Cybertruck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it\u2019s not all bad news for California, he told shareholders last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be clear we will be continuing to expand our activities in California,\u201d Musk said during the call. \u201cOur intention is to increase output from Fremont and Giga Nevada by 50%. If you go to our Fremont factory it\u2019s jammed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs all pointed southeast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite his commitment to grow the company\u2019s Fremont, California plant in the future, the move isn\u2019t necessarily a big shock to anyone paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rumor mill started when during an earnings call Musk went off on California officials about the strict rules put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. During the call, he called them \u201cfascist\u201d and littered the rant with other less-than-kind profanity-laced expletives about the officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone who thought it was just a temporary bit of frustration from an executive who can occasionally act like a spoiled child when he doesn\u2019t get his way, Musk followed it up in May 2020<\/a><\/u><\/strong> when angry with local government officials in California in May 2020, said he\u2019d had enough and was going to relocate the company\u2019s non-manufacturing operations to the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrankly, this is the final straw,\u201d he tweeted on Saturday. \u201cTesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas\/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen(t) on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Musk said he plans to increase output at Fremont by 50 percent.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Blasting off in Starbase<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the times he mentioned he wanted to move the company, he personally moved to Texas last year. He sold nearly all of his California properties and moved into a $50,000 prefabricated house on the grounds of SpaceX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also took over much of the town of Boca Chica, Texas for SpaceX and renamed it Starbase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica \/ Starbase that I rent from SpaceX,\u201d he tweeted in June. \u201cIt\u2019s kinda awesome though. Only house I own is the events house in the Bay Area. If I sold it, the house would see less use, unless bought by a big family, which might happen some day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The growth of SpaceX requires Musk, known for being very hands-on at all of his businesses, to focus heavily on the rocket company\u2019s operations. By shifting EV company\u2019s non-automotive ops to Texas would make it easier for him to spend at each location and get to either quickly if needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a surprise to no one, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is moving the EV company\u2019s headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas. Musk, angry with local government officials in California in May 2020, said he\u2019d had enough and was going to relocate the company\u2019s non-manufacturing operations to the Lone Star State. TheDetroitBureau.com has details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":158895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1164,9],"tags":[990,2992,386,2993,2991],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209986,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209978\/revisions\/209986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209978"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=209978"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=209978"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=209978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}