Texas, Arizona Beg Tesla To Build Factories While Banning It From Selling Cars

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The Huffington Post | by Jillian Berman

Posted: 03/19/2014

Texas and Arizona are each competing to be the future home of a new lithium-ion battery factory that Tesla estimates could create 6,500 jobs.

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But neither state has been very friendly to Tesla: Both say Tesla can't sell cars there without using independent car dealers ... Nevada and New Mexico, which are also in the running to host the new plant, called a "Gigafactory," don't have such rules.

That's not stopping Arizona and Texas from trying to woo Tesla anyway: All nine of Arizona's U.S. representatives wrote a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, urging him to build the new factory in that state. The mayors of Tucson and Mesa, Arizona, have made the same pitch. Texas state representative Jason Villaba wrote Musk earlier this month trying to lure him to that state.

In his letter, first reported by the Texas Tribune, Villaba noted that Texas has no personal or corporate income tax and is a “right-to-work” state (no unions allowed, in other words). The Arizona congressmen wrote that their state is "one of the most business-friendly" in the nation.

Tesla's response has been understandably cool.

“The issue of where we do business is in some ways inextricably linked to where we sell our cars,” Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president for business development, told Bloomberg.

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Jillian Berman is a 'Tardo - but thanks for posting, O AraJit !