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Tesla Would Be Operating In Nuevo Leon By The End Of The Year Or Early 2024
The Groundbreaking Ceremony of Tesla’s gigafactory in Nuevo Leon, could be laid in a month and a half and it should be operational by the end of this year or early 2024, said the state’s governor, Samuel Garcia, on Monday.
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In an interview with EFE in his offices at the Government Palace in Monterrey, Garcia informed that he is only waiting for federal permits to begin construction of the project.
The gigafactory will be located in the municipality of Santa Catarina, some 17 kilometers from Monterrey, and will represent an initial investment of US$5 billion, in addition to generating some 35,000 direct and indirect jobs.
“For the first stone to be laid, we need all the permits to be ready, the local permits have already been approved, the federal permits are missing, so we are just waiting for Semarnat (Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources) to give the approval and then we can start”, said Garcia.
He specified that this process, according to the law, could take approximately a month and a half, so in that time Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk could be in Nuevo Leon for the start-up of the project.
On Wednesday of last week, during the celebration of the “Investor Day 2023” held in Austin (Texas, USA) the magnate confirmed the installation of Tesla in the north of Mexico.
“In order not to speculate on the terms (the time in which it will be already in operations) the Shanghai plant was a replica of Austin: the same process, the same plant, the same model and they did it in nine months. Here it is much more ambitious, they are talking about a plant that with a new assembly system will create a new model that is the most economical in the world”, he explained.
He added that, for now, there is no certain date for the Nuevo Leon assembly plant to start operations, but it could be by the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024.
The plant will be Tesla’s first automobile production plant in Latin America and the fifth in the world, after those already operating in Fremont and Austin (United States), Shanghai (China), and Berlin (Germany).
