Tesla and Toyota will do electric cars together

American developer of unique sports electric cars Tesla announced a collaboration with the world's largest automaker - the Japanese corporation Toyota. The importance and epoch-making of this cooperation cannot be overestimated. In fact, Tesla has at its disposal the most developed infrastructure in the world for the production and distribution of cars.







Now we have learned at which plant the Model S will be produced - this will be the recently closed Toyota plant in California.



At first, the cooperation is that Toyota is investing $ 50 million in Tesla, and the production of electric vehicles will start at the recently closed due to the crisis of the factory New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (Nummi), where previously collected Corolla and Tacoma. This huge and iconic Toyota plant is located in Fremont (California) near Silicon Valley. Its closure hurt not only for 1,000 laid-off employees, but for the entire state economy. Experts estimated the damage from the closure of the plant at about $ 1 billion over the next decade.

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Now Nummi will open again and will be releasing the Tesla Model S sedan and other models in the future.



The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger was also present at the press conference on the creation of the joint venture. He promised all sorts of tax breaks to start-ups and environmental car buyers.