Tesla considering building 自動推進の 投資 in Spain - source
MADRID, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. electric car 製造業者 Tesla is in 会談 with the leaders of the 地域の 政府 of Valencia in Spain to make an 自動推進の 投資, a source の近くに to the discussions has told Reuters.
A spokesperson for Valencia's 地域の 政府 told Reuters it had held 会合s and conversations with an 身元不明の company about a "large 自動推進の 投資", but 拒絶する／低下するd to give more 詳細（に述べる）s, 特記する／引用するing the confidentiality of the 交渉s.
A separate source 確認するd the company 関心d was Tesla. Spanish 商売／仕事 newspaper Cinco Dias 特記する／引用するd sources as 説 the 投資 would be a car factory and its total size could reach 4.5 billion euros ($4.83 billion). Reuters was unable to 確認する the likely 投資 size, nor type of 投資.
In a 声明, the Valencian 政府 否定するd that there was an 協定 調印（する）d with Tesla. Tesla did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment, while Spain's central 政府 拒絶する／低下するd to comment.
Spain is Europe's second-largest car 生産者, and is using European Union COVID pandemic 回復 基金s to attract carmakers to 投資する in the 製造（する） of both 殴打／砲列s and electric 乗り物s. The EU 計画（する）s to 段階 out thermal cars.
German carmaker Volkswagen said last year it would 投資する 10 billion euros to build a 40 GWh 殴打／砲列 工場／植物 in Sagunto, 近づく Valencia, with 生産／産物 to start by 2026.
Valencia, in eastern Spain, is also home to a car 製造業の 施設 for Ford, which 計画（する）s to start producing electric 乗り物s there.
At 現在の Tesla's only European car factory - 批判的な to Tesla 大統領 Officer Elon Musk's 明言する／公表するd ambition to vanquish European market leader Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) - is in the German 明言する／公表する of Brandenburg.
It was 建設するd last year and by February this year was producing 4,000 cars a week, the company said.
Musk said in May that the 自動車製造業者 would probably 選ぶ a 場所 for a new factory by the end of this year, without 存在 drawn on where.
Also in May, he …に出席するd a "Choose フラン" 投資 首脳会議 in Versailles, 近づく Paris, where he met French 大統領 Emmanuel Macron and said he was 確信して Tesla would make "重要な 投資s" in フラン in the 未来.
Tesla has made no について言及する to date of 計画（する）s to 投資する in Spain. However last year, Musk 示唆するd in a tweet that Spain should "build a 大規模な solar array... Could 力／強力にする all of Europe".
Spain's 総理大臣 Pedro Sanchez 答える／応じるd - also on Twitter, which Musk owns - "Time is now. Let's get it 権利. Come and see. We welcome 投資家s in Spain."
($1 = 0.9320 euros) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Inti Landauro, Belen Carreno and Joan Faus, Editing by Aislinn Laing, Jan Harvey and Sharon Singleton)
