Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk confirmed curiosity in Turkey (Türkiye) for funding and exploring the nation’s tech and engineering expertise.
By way of his social media platform X (previously Twitter), Elon Musk shared a promo video of Teknofest, Trukey’s greatest yearly technological competition. “Congratulations to all of the groups competing in Teknofest,” Musk acknowledged the efforts of the Teknofest groups who demonstrated their skills.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Elon Musk met in New York on Sep 18 forward of the UN Common Meeting assembly. Erdogan invited Elon Musk to attend the Teknofest occasion. However as a consequence of his hectic schedule, he may go to this 12 months. However Musk mentioned that he’s going to take part within the occasion subsequent 12 months and thanked the Turkish president for his invitation as properly.
“I sit up for attending in particular person subsequent 12 months, in addition to discussing additional alternatives for funding in Türkiye,” Musk posted on X.
Musk and Erdogan’s assembly in New York final week made headlines because the Turkish president requested the Tesla boss to arrange a Gigafactory in his nation. Nevertheless, Elon Musk didn’t pledge to construct a Gigafactory in Turkey on this assembly.
However within the X publish talked about above, Elon Musk confirmed his curiosity in growing Tesla’s investments in Turkey. These investments is likely to be within the type of growing Tesla Superchargers, showrooms, and repair facilities in Turkey. Tesla may additionally improve its recruitment from Turkey to fetch tech and engineering expertise from the nation.
So far as investing in a Gigafactory in Turkey, it appears too distant sooner or later, even when Musk considers it in any respect. There are a minimum of 2 Gigafactories already within the pipeline — Gigafactory Quebec, Canada and Giga Mexico. On the verge of those new giga automotive manufacturing crops within the making, Musk would by no means take one other giga process on his fingers within the close to future a minimum of.
Teknofest continues to be happening in Turkey, as we speak is the 4th day of this occasion going down within the metropolis of Izmir. The demonstration at Teknofest contains engineering, aerospace, robotics, and tech basically. Elon Musk will need to have been impressed by the efforts of the Turkish expertise that he pledged to attend the occasion subsequent 12 months. Listed here are some extra movies and updates from the occasion by means of its official account on X.
Musk has met 3 world leaders this month, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President of Hungary Katalin Novák.
Simply days after the Elon Musk and Erdogan assembly, Musk’s satellite tv for pc web supplier Starlink utilized for a license to function in Turkiye.
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Sources: X / Elon Musk, Teknofest.
Word: An earlier model of this text was printed at Tesla Oracle. Creator: Iqtidar Ali.