Elon Musk hints at building another Tesla factory in the US

Singapore/San Francisco — With two words and a question mark, Elon Musk dropped a hint Tesla may build another US factory, days after President Donald Trump suggested the CEO owed the country another manufacturing plant.

Trump weighed in on the hype around Tesla in January, calling the SA-born CEO “one of our great geniuses” and comparing him with Thomas Edison and the inventor of the wheel. Musk, 48, became a US citizen in 2002, the year before Tesla was founded. In 2014, Tesla announced plans to build a massive battery manufacturing plant, setting off fierce competition for what was then one of the country’s biggest economic-development prizes. The company narrowed the finalists to five states — Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas — and Nevada prevailed.

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