- In light of the coronavirus, Tesla will shut down production at its Fremont plant in California at the close of business on Monday.
- Tesla’s plant was deemed a non-essential business so it can only in “minimum basic operations.”
- Tesla will reportedly use the forced shut down to make factory upgrades.
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With the entire state of California still on lockdown because of the coronavirus, only essential operations are allowed to remain functional. As such, the only places of business that are allowed to remain open in the state include grocery stores, banks, gas stations, pharmacies, and laundromats. For a while, though, it seemed as if Tesla would be able to keep production at its Fremont plant in California running at full throttle, in spite of the order.
Tesla’s brazenness in this regard probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given some of Elon Musk’s recent statements regarding the virus. Recall, the Tesla CEO a few weeks ago called the coronavirus panic “dumb,” and subsequently said that “the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.”
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