Outspoken CEO says coronavirus-related shutdown orders are fascist
The Bay area was the first region in the US to implement stay-home orders to contain the spread of Covid-19 and has been cautious about lifting themNew York — Elon Musk has lashed out at the California county blocking Tesla from reopening its only US car plant, threatening to immediately relocate operations to other states and cease manufacturing at the factory.
Musk, who has called coronavirus-related shutdown orders fascist, said Tesla will decide whether to keep producing cars in Fremont, California, based on how it is treated in future. The Bay area was the first region in the country to implement stay-home orders to contain the spread of Covid-19 and has been cautious about lifting them.
Tesla has about 20,000 employees in the Bay area, including its headquarters in Palo Alto. The company announced internally in late March that two staffers tested positive for the virus but did not specify which office they worked in. “The Alameda county health care services agency and the public health department have been communicating directly and working closely with the Tesla team on the ground in Fremont,” the county said.
Following through on the threat to move Tesla’s headquarters and future programmes to Texas and Nevada, where the company has its huge battery plant, will be costly and challenging for Musk but relatively easier than ending production in Fremont. Musk encouraged his almost 34-million Twitter followers to voice their displeasure with the county and endorsed the idea that shareholders could file a class-action lawsuit. He said Tesla knows more than the county does about what needs to be done to safely operate its factory after having reopened its plant near Shanghai earlier this year.
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