Electric vehicle maker Tesla is establishing its global engineering headquarters in California, CEO Elon Musk announced on Feb. 22.
In a joint press conference with California governor Gavin Newsom, Musk said the new engineering headquarters will be at the former offices of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto.
Musk called the move “a poetic transition from the company that founded Silicon Valley to Tesla.”
Newsom said that “Tesla is a California company” and “it started here first,” adding that California has supported the EV maker over the course of the last few decades.
“It’s demonstrable in terms of policy, in terms of direction, more broadly. An interesting regulation, dare I say, for all its good and evil, depending on which side you are on. But the regulatory framework accelerated the investment, accelerated with some certainty that this was the direction we were going,” Newsom said….