Musk brings Tesla engineering headquarters back to California

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk plans to transfer Tesla’s engineering headquarters back to California and nearer to his just lately acquired social media web site Twitter’s foremost campus. 

The billionaire CEO introduced the relocation plans in a press convention Wednesday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. 

The new engineering HQ is not the identical as Tesla’s “gigafactory” facility, which is situated close to Austin, Texas. The engineering HQ was moved in 2021 to Austin together with the primary headquarters for the corporate, the place they have been nearer to each the manufacturing facility and the SpaceX launch web site. 

But with Musk’s buy in 2022 of Twitter, he seems to be spending a lot of his power in Silicon Valley, ceaselessly making adjustments to the social media firm and attempting to trim prices after his $44 billion takeover. 

The new Tesla engineering HQ will take over a Palo Alto workplace area beforehand occupied by Hewlett-Packard. 

“This is, I think, a poetic transition from the company that founded Silicon Valley to Tesla,” Musk mentioned.

The firm’s foremost headquarters will stay in Texas.

Despite the joint press convention, Musk and Newsom’s authorities aren’t at all times on the identical web page. 

When Musk first moved Tesla’s headquarters to Texas, he was following by means of on threats to depart the state over crimson tape and laws in the course of the pandemic. 

Musk and state officers clashed over reopening a Tesla facility in Fremont, California and whether or not Tesla workers ought to do business from home.

The transfer back to California additionally comes as Tesla faces regulatory investigations within the state. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has accused Tesla of misleading advertising and marketing practices over its claims in regards to the firm’s self-driving software program. 

In a separate case, the state has filed a go well with in opposition to Tesla alleging racial harassment and discrimination in opposition to Black employees on the firm’s amenities all through California. 

But the state has at all times been fertile floor for Tesla as an electrical automobile startup. California’s sturdy local weather initiatives have usually been a driving power behind the demand for Tesla automobiles. It’s No. 1 within the nation for electrical automobile purchases, with practically 1.4 million electrical automobiles bought within the state. 

California has additionally handed a legislation that by 2035, most new automobile gross sales will want to be electrical.