As the development competition for EV = electric vehicles accelerates in the world, American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla announced that it will build a new factory in northern Mexico and strengthen its production system.
This was announced by Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an investor event in Texas on the 1st.
The new factory, which will be built in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico, will be Tesla's third production base outside the United States, following Shanghai in China and Berlin in Germany.
According to Reuters, the investment amount is more than $5 billion, or about 680 billion yen in Japanese yen.
During the event, CEO Musk said, ``We plan to continue expanding production at all existing factories, and the Mexican factory will complement production elsewhere,'' emphasizing that it will strengthen production. Did.
Tesla has set a goal of increasing annual production to 20 million units by 2030, and there is growing interest in whether the construction of a new factory will bring it closer to achieving that goal.