Sources close to Newsom told CNBC that the meeting was expected to focus on Tesla’s efforts to create jobs and expand in the Golden State.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a tour of the electric carmaker’s engineering headquarters in Palo Alto on Wednesday — a surprising development given the billionaire’s frequent criticism of the Democratic Party.
The mogul noted that Newsom was one of the first customers to buy a Tesla Roadster more than a decade-and-a-half ago. The company’s new engineering headquarters is located in the same office space once occupied by computer giant Hewlett-Packard.
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