Musk Doubles Workforce at Austin Factory Immediately After Biden's Infrastructure Bill Unveiling

Elon Musk [Photo by AP Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Byunghee Park] Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, announced via Twitter on the 31st of last month (local time) that the employment scale at the Austin plant in Texas will be doubled from the original plan.

According to Bloomberg News, Musk wrote on his Twitter that the Austin Gigafactory will require 10,000 workers by 2022. This number is twice the previously announced figure.

Bloomberg explained that Musk posted the tweet about expanding the Austin Gigafactory workforce less than an hour after President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure bill focused on green investment.

The Austin plant is Tesla's fifth Gigafactory. Tesla built its first Gigafactory in Storey County, Nevada, USA, followed by the second in Buffalo, New York, USA. The third Gigafactory was built in Shanghai, China, and began full operation early last year. The fourth Gigafactory is currently under construction in Berlin, Germany. The fifth Gigafactory in Austin is planned to be the largest ever built.

Tesla announced that the Austin plant will produce the electric trucks Semi and Cybertruck, as well as Model 3 and Model Y vehicles primarily supplied to the eastern United States.

In addition to the Gigafactories, Tesla operates an assembly plant in Fremont, California, USA.

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