•UNCERTAINTY: Uncertainty stemming from the López Obrador administration’s energy policies was one of the reasons why electric car maker Tesla was discouraged to build its new Cybertruck factory in central-western Mexico and eventually settled for Texas, a Jalisco state official said.
•CAPACITY: According to the Guadalajara newspaper Mural, the Jalisco state government held exploratory talks in 2019 with the California-based company in order for it to open a multi-million dollar factory that would have required guaranteeing a 400 megawatt power supply.
•FEARSOME: “The company was frightened in the long term. It was frightened by the long-term energy supply sufficiency given what it was perceiving, from the rhetoric of the federal (government’s) policies”, said Ernesto Sánchez Proal, Jalisco’s Secretary for Economic Development.
•FACTORY: In July of this year, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company had picked Austin, Texas as the site of its Cybertruck factory after also considering Tulsa in Oklahoma. In May, the governor of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato made an open appeal to Tesla too.
