Tesla, Saudi Arabia in 早期に 会談 for EV factory - WSJ

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is in 早期に 会談 with U.S. electric 自動車製造業者 Tesla to 始める,決める up a 製造業の 施設 in the kingdom, the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 報告(する)/憶測d on Monday, 特記する/引用するing sources familiar with the 事柄.

The 報告(する)/憶測 comes just hours after Turkish 大統領 Tayyip Erdogan asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk to build a 乗り物 factory in Turkey, によれば the country's communications directorate.

Musk also met Israeli 総理大臣 Benjamin Netanyahu in California on Monday.

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on a 地位,任命する on X social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約, while Saudi Arabia's 君主 基金, the Public 投資 基金, 拒絶する/低下するd to comment.

Saudi Arabia has been 支持を得ようと努めるing Tesla with the 権利 to 購入(する) 確かな 量s of metals and minerals the company needs for its electric 乗り物s from countries, 含むing the Democratic 共和国 of Congo, the 報告(する)/憶測 said.

The kingdom has been trying to 転換 its economy away from oil, while its 君主 wealth 基金 is the 大多数 投資家 in Lucid Group, one of the EV startups looking to challenge Tesla's dominance of the 産業.

One of the 提案s the kingdom is considering 伴う/関わるs 延長するing 財政/金融ing to 商品/必需品s 仲買人 Trafigura for a flailing Congo cobalt and 巡査 事業/計画(する), which could help 供給する a Tesla factory with 供給(する)s, the WSJ 報告(する)/憶測 said.

A Trafigura spokesperson said the 仲買人 was reviewing its 選択s for the Mutoshi 事業/計画(する) in Congo まっただ中に rising costs and 断固としてやる low cobalt prices.

Musk said in May Tesla would probably 選ぶ a 場所 for a new factory by the end of 2023. It 現在/一般に has six factories and is building a seventh in Mexico in n orthern Nuevo Leon 明言する/公表する.

Tesla has a goal to sell 20 million 乗り物s a year by 2030, up from around 1.3 million in 2022.

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Samrhitha Arunasalam and Arpan Varghese in Bengaluru and Rachna Uppal in Dubai; Editing by Arun Koyyur)

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