Tesla defied San Francisco Bay Area health officials today by reopening a factory during an escalating standoff over a stay-at-home order that kept the plant closed
Newsom last week allowed manufacturing to reopen, citing flattening hospitalization rates. But all six Bay Area counties, including Alameda, where Tesla is located, have opted to keep manufacturing plants closed to help control their infection curve.
Even before this standoff, California’s relationship with Tesla faced some growing pains. Long hailed as one of the state’s most iconic engines of innovation, the electric car maker has faced scrutiny over labor conditions at its plant — which used to be a unionized business operated by Toyota and GM — and Musk’s unfulfilled promise for coronavirus help. The company has spent some $2.5 million lobbying Sacramento since 2017.
“Why are pot stores open, but book stores closed? We’ll lose public confidence & public health compliance if we don’t engage w/each other as adults,” Liccardo tweeted at a critical lawmaker. “I trust the opinion of an appointed public health official with the expertise possessed by Dr. Pan with a focus on the health of the community over the Twitter rants of an unelected elitist whose focus is to appease Wall Street investors,” Kalra said.
“I have more confidence moving forward to be able to support a company that this state has substantively supported for many, many years," Newsom said on Monday.
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