Tesla pitches 5,000 ‘middle-skill’ factory jobs to Texas county

tesla pickup — CEO Elon Musk first announced plans in March to build Tesla’s second U.S. auto assembly plant that will produce the still-in-development Cybertruck (pictured) and Model Y crossovers for customers on the East Coast. (REUTERS)

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DANA HULL

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Bloomberg

June 23, 2020 05:58 PM

Executives from Tesla Inc. will use an unassuming job-type description in their pitch to a Texas county on the merits of the carmaker’s Cybertruck plant project.

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