" Building an EV requires metal forging, battery manufacturing, painting, and chip fabrication — all processes that drove Tesla to build in Nevada and Texas.

" Building an EV requires metal forging, battery manufacturing, painting, and chip fabrication — all processes that drove Tesla to build in Nevada and Texas. Tesla's Fremont factory was the former NUMMI plant (GM/Toyota, operating since 1962). It was grandfathered in." This website misses talking about all the Tesla Fremont paint shop violations (see https://www.baaqmd.gov/en/news-and-events/page-resources/2024-news/062524-tesla-aq-violations https://www.baaqmd.gov/en/news-and-events/page-resources/202... ) and various OSHA violations: - https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-02-11/tesla-fined-for-serious-heat-violations-at-fremont https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-02-11/tesla-fine... (2025) - https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-many-osha-violations-as-the-10-largest-us-plants-combined https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-man... (2019)