Tesla announced that it will open a new global engineering headquarters in California.
The offices in Palo Alto are in addition to Tesla's corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled the plans during an event in the Bay Area city on Wednesday.
- Musk said Tesla would “build the future" in the state, where it employs about 48,000 people or roughly a third of its workforce.
- The EV maker started in San Carlos, California in 2003, and remained at that HQ for nearly 20 years.
- In 2021, Tesla abruptly relocated its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas, the site of its new Gigafactory.
- It still maintains its old HQ offices in Palo Alto. The company also operates a factory in Fremont, a city located in California's Alameda County, which Tesla previously sued over mandated COVID-19 shutdown rules.
- Around that time, Musk threatened to withdraw Tesla’s operations out of California due to the COVID restrictions.
