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Tesla’s latest Ontario lobby activity could indicate a Tesla factory is coming to Canada
CEO Elon Musk has hinted heavily, as recently as Tesla’s Aug. 4 annual meeting, that it is considering Canada as a destination for a new manufacturing facility.
But public documents filed in Ontario in July are the first concrete evidence of Tesla’s interest in either an industrial or “advanced manufacturing facility”
Tesla has initiated talks with the Ontario government about improving the province’s competitiveness for attracting manufacturing facilities, per lobbyist registry documents recently filed with the province.
Suspicions that the Texas-headquartered electric automaker is considering setting up a factory in Canada have long been brewing, but largely they are based on what Tesla founder Elon Musk says in passing remarks on company calls and, most recently, at its annual shareholders meeting on Aug. 4.
Electric Autonomy Canada can exclusively report Tesla’s latest goal as detailed in its lobbyist registry.
A new objective, reads the July 2022 disclosure, is to “Engage with the government and its agencies to identify opportunities for industrial and/or advanced manufacturing facility permitting reforms with the intent to increase the competitiveness of Ontario and its ability to attract capital investment through establishing approvals timeframes that are competitive with high-growth manufacturing locations in North America, while also working with government to identify or align incentives programs that could further increase the attractiveness of Ontario for industrial and/or advanced manufacturing investment.”
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