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AUSTIN, TX – Tesla’s California executive team had no idea Elon Musk was planning to relocate Tesla’s headquarters to Texas until it was announced at its annual general meeting last month, according to a report from Bloomberg.
On October 7, Musk announced that Tesla would move its headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, citing Bay Area house prices, restrictions on business expansion, and commute lengths as reasons to leave the Golden State.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s director of business and economic development, Dee Dee Myers, said on a press call that Musk never told his team about the move.
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“We later spoke to leadership in his California offices who didn’t know until he made the announcement,” she told Business Insider.
Musk moved to Texas last year and Tesla started building its Austin Gigafactory last summer.
Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, neurotech company Neuralink, and infrastructure company The Boring Company also operate in Texas, and Musk has announced plans to do so start a new city called Starbase at SpaceX’s launch facilities in Texas, Business Insider reports.
Musk said at the shareholders meeting that the company will continue to expand operations in California, adding that Tesla plans to ramp up production at its Fremont, Bay Area factory by 50 percent.
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