France wants Elon Musk to build a Tesla factory in the country – CNBC

SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk with France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023. France has been looking to woo Musk and Tesla to set up a factory in the country.Michel Euler | AFP | Getty ImagesPARIS — France is trying to convince Elon Musk to build Tesla’s next Gigafactory in the country, the nation’s digital minister told CNBC on Wednesday, in the most explicit comments yet that Paris wants the billionaire’s investment.The courtship comes just as the minister threatened the Musk-owned Twitter with a ban, if it does not comply with upcoming European Union regulation.”It will be great to have a Tesla factory in France, there has been a lot of effort and energy to make sure this is possible and this can happen,” Jean-Noel Barrot told CNBC’s Charlotte Reed at the Viva Tech conference in Paris.France has been looking to boost its position as a hub for the electric car industry, opening its first electric car battery factory this year.”We have also invested in an … entire sector of electric batteries so we will try to convince him that France is the best possible place
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