(July 24, 2020) Tesla has told Travis County in Texas that its planned factory to build the Cybertruck will eventually employ 5,000 full-time workers with an average salary of roughly $47,000 a year. Texas is the big winner in the sweepstakes to land Tesla Inc.'s next Gigafactory, according to the Automotive News.
CEO Elon Musk, speaking on the company's second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, said construction began this past weekend on a 2,000-acre site outside Austin along the Colorado River that sits about five minutes from the Austin airport.