Tesla’s California factory remains open after coronavirus shelter-in-place order

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Tesla is keeping its Fremont, California, car factory open following a new order from the Alameda County government ordering nonessential businesses to close down to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times. This comes just days after CEO Elon Musk underplayed the pandemic in an email to employees of his other company, SpaceX.
Notorious for massive end-of-quarter efforts to make and sell as many vehicles as possible, the Silicon Valley automaker just started deliveries of its fifth electric car, the Model Y compact SUV, this past weekend ahead of the end of the first quarter on March 31st.
In a new email to Tesla staff regarding the order, though, Musk told employees to “not feel…

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