Elon Musk turned up at GigaFactory Berlin - which will start producing Teslas by year end… his plane stopped off in UK over the weekend… as it did last June… meeting anyone interesting @elonmusk ?
Industry insiders report considerable Govt effort going into wooing him to UK…
Industry insiders report considerable Govt effort going into wooing him to UK…
https://twitter.com/austinteslaclub/status/1394372985025409024
The question would be how to persuade him that he can’t just freely serve UK market tariff free from Berlin factory… get into quite complex rules of origin calculations on electric cars, which were the subject of very last minute phase in negotiations between PM and VDL.
many years ago U.K. certainly an option,
when he announced Berlin in 2019 he was asked by a British journalist why not UK… he referenced Brexit - though that was while immediate tariffs/ no deal were still a possibility - does the deal remove the risk he identified then?
when he announced Berlin in 2019 he was asked by a British journalist why not UK… he referenced Brexit - though that was while immediate tariffs/ no deal were still a possibility - does the deal remove the risk he identified then?
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1194406702822645761
What we do know is that in 2019 Government showed his team site near Manchester… and that last June it was reported that a site in the south west near Bristol was also being pushed, and indeed visited…
then all gets v interesting re potential post Brexit industrial incentives
then all gets v interesting re potential post Brexit industrial incentives
Industry wisdom has been that UK market alone not big enough to sustain a separate car factory (in addition to Berlin) - but perhaps the ban on combustion engines might just change that maths… as pointed out below, there may be other options…
https://twitter.com/hiltonholloway/status/1394406760656556035
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