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Elon Musk teases building a new Tesla Gigafactory in Texas

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Catherine Thorbecke
ByCatherine Thorbecke
February 05, 2020, 7:18 PM

Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased his Twitter followers on Wednesday with a poll asking them if they want a Gigafactory built in Texas.

With results still rolling in, a majority of respondents indicated "Hell yeah" over "Nope" in Musk's unexpected poll.

There are currently two other Tesla Gigafactory's located in the U.S. -- Nevada and upstate New York.

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Musk announced last November that the site of its first European factory would be in Berlin. Production is slated to begin there in 2021.

PHOTO: SpaceX founder and chief engineer Elon Musk speaks at a post-launch news conference to discuss the  SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut capsule in-flight abort test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 19, 2020.
SpaceX founder and chief engineer Elon Musk speaks at a post-launch news conference to discuss the SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut capsule in-flight abort test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 19, 2020.
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Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai began delivering its first "made in China" cars last December after completing construction in just about a year. The Gigafactory in China was the company's first plant built outside of the U.S.  

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Last month, Tesla overtook Germany's Volkswagen to become the second most valuable automaker in the world, when its market value surpassed the $100 billion mark. The company's stock has skyrocketed to record highs in recent weeks, at times even baffling many investors and analysts.

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