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Building a factory in Texas worked for Toyota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufact

• mariojv 6y ago
  Absolutely. There aren't a lot of details in the article, so I'm wondering where exactly near Austin they're thinking of building the factory. San Antonio's only an hour to an hour and a half south of Austin and is where this Toyota plant is located. There's a lot of really inexpensive land within a quick drive of the city and an airport with enough direct flights to get around.
  • retr0grad3 6y ago
    So East of town (Austinite here) there's a lot of wide-open space. My money is on something East of 130 toll road near the Circuit of the Americas. I could see a lot of incentives being thrown that way from the Red McCombs family (major funder of COTA, highly influential in TX politics) to build alongside or nearby.
    • Cactus2018 6y ago
      Random people on the internet are saying "RCR Taylor Logistics Park outside of Hutto, TX"
• gok 6y ago
  Not entirely coincidentally, Telsa's current factory in California is a former Toyota plant.
  • bdcravens 6y ago
    They also briefly partnered with Toyota on a Rav4: https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-notifies-sec-agreement-toyota-develop-electric-version-rav4 https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-notifies-sec-agreement-toyo...
  • masonic 6y ago
    It's a former GM plant that later hosted the joint GM/Toyota venture NUMMI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI