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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to pull his company’s factory and headquarters out of California after local officials stopped him reopening the electric car factory due to the Covid-19 risk, Associated Press reports.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Tesla accused the Alameda County Health Department of overstepping federal and state coronavirus restrictions when it stopped Tesla from restarting production at its factory in Fremont. The lawsuit contends Tesla factory workers are allowed to work during California’s stay-at-home order because the facility is considered “critical infrastructure.”
Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla 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 on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.
The reopening of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border in the US has drawn crowds of hundreds, many not wearing masks, knocking over barricades and standing pressed together in lines a mile long to view the sights.
Park spokeswoman Dana Soehn told the Associated Press that many people were not wearing masks or social distancing, with visitors over the weekend from 24 different states.
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