Elon Musk makes private visit to the Buffalo Tesla facility – The Buffalo News
It was actually Elon Musk who stopped by the Tesla Inc. solar panel factory in Buffalo on Friday.
Musk, Tesla's chairman and CEO, visited the South Park Avenue factory on Friday, confirmed a Tesla woman. She did not elaborate on what Musk did here or offered other details about the visit. She said that Musk, who has never made a public visit to Buffalo, would not speak to local media while he was here.
The Buffalo solar panel factory, built and partly equipped by the state with $ 750 million in taxpayer's money as part of the Buffalo Million economic development program, has taken much longer than expected to evolve, as Tesla's solar business has shrunk and the company has focused most of their resources on their vehicles.
The plant, which Tesla has promised, will employ 1[ads1],460 people in April 2020, currently has fewer than 800 workers today after a full-year round of job reductions earlier this year.
