The request comes after the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will confirm this morning that the company of magnate Elon Musk will install a plant in the country.
According to the Mexican president, the new Tesla plant will be located near its most recent flagship, the Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA)in the state of Hidalgo.
López Obrador questioned that the production of electric vehicles is carried out in Nuevo León, as the governor of this entity, Samuel García, intends, since he criticized that in said demarcation in northern Mexico there is no water to.
In this sense, the governor of Michoacán assured the Mexican Foreign Ministry, which is leading the talks with the company from the also owner of Twitterthat this state in the west of the country “has sufficient clean energy, water resources and an unbeatable logistical position.”
Ramírez explained that Michoacán has at least two suitable places to be the headquarters of the new Tesla plant.
One of them, of 640 hectares, in the palm islandbelonging to the Mexican Secretary of the Navy and which manages the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, one of the most important in the country and which only in 2022 increased its vehicle exports by 30%.
The other zone could be in the bajio parkwhich has 440 hectares and is located on the Mexico-Guadalajara highway, in the Queréndaro Station, which, he said, “It has railroad tracks coming from Lázaro, with direct access to the federal highway and 7 kilometers from the airport”.
The Governor of Michoacán said that only Parque Bajío has a million meters cubic per year, “something that other states do not have”
In addition, he stressed that the port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the main connection between the North American and Asian markets, “so it is a serious candidate to host Tesla, as well as other world-class firms.”