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Old 12-07-2018, 06:20 PM   #28 (permalink)
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GM is causing business conversion to EV

... in a way. If Musk gets to do what he says the's thinking about:
https://electrek.co/2018/12/07/tesla...ies-elon-musk/
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If GM goes through with its recently announced restructuring that would see several North America plants shut down, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that they would consider buying some of those shuttered factories.
Last month, GM announced that they are closing 3 assembly factories in North America.
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Now in a new interview, CEO Elon Musk said that they would consider it again:

“It’s possible that we would be interested if [GM] are going to sell a plant or not use it that we would take it over.”

Back in 2010, Tesla bought NUMMI, a car factory jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota in Fremont California, for just $42 million shortly after it was shut down.
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