Check Out All Three Telling Elon Musk Interviews With Automotive News – InsideEVs

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Posted onEVANNEX on August 17, 2020byIqtidar Ali

Elon Musktook part in a series of fascinating interviews withAutomotive News Daily Drive podcast(listen to all three parts below). Muskdiscussed a variety of topicsincluding therecently-announced Austin Gigafactory andsomeof his views related to the much-anticipated Tesla Cybertruck.

Muskelaborated on some of the reasons for choosing Austin as the location for Teslas next U.S. Gigafactory.As reported, cities including Austin, Houston, and Tulsa were allactively vyingto get Teslas attentionfor the new Gigafactory. Interestingly though, most of the in-house tech and engineering talent atTesla wasmost enthusiastic aboutthe move to Austin.In turn, this becamea keycriteria for (ultimately) choosing Austin.

Muskalso expressed his desire for setting up a Gigafactorycloser to the East Coast.That said, Giga Austinfit this criteriaand also gives the manufacturer easy access to surrounding states, making local deliveries faster as well.

Regarding the Cybertruck,Muskexplained that he and his team at Tesla did zero customer research. Musk said, we just made a car we thought was awesome, it looks super weird, I just wanted to make a futuristic battle tank, something that came out of Blade Runner or Aliens or something like that.

Meanwhile, back in California, vehicleproduction at Tesla's Fremont factory is still 70% of the automakers total production. However, according to Musk, Bay Area is a pretty expensive place to build cars. In addition, there arefar more regulatory agencies in California compared to Texas.

In response toa question asking if Musk is still consideringmoving the Tesla HQ out of California,he responded: "Thats gonna require a lot more thought. Obviously theres no question that our headquarters will remain in California in the short-term. Long term, well have to see."

In any event,a wide varietyoffascinating details were revealed during Musk's extensive three-part interview series with Automotive News. As a recap, the three separate interviews are all consolidated below be sure to check out these Elon Musk interviews for morevaluable insights into Tesla's future.

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Written by:Iqtidar Ali. An earlier version of this article was originallypublished onTesla Oracle. Source:Automotive News

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