A Ukrainian lawmaker has written to Elon Musk, the CEO of U.S. electric car producer Tesla Motors, asking that the tech entrepreneur consider building a Tesla car factory in Ukraine.
The letter, from People’s Front party lawmaker Viktor Romaniuk, comes after Musk announced his company was to make a “significant investment” in expanding its European operations. Tesla has neither confirmed the timescale for building its research center in Europe, nor specified a location.
“Elon Musk is going to build a new Tesla factory in Europe,” Romaniuk wrote on Facebook on Jan. 13.
“This is exactly what’s needed in our country today: technologies, human and financial capital.”
Romaniuk also attached a scan of the letter he sent to Musk.
“Tesla Motors is about to adopt a decision on the construction of a new plant in Europe,” the lawmaker wrote in the letter, which is in English. “We suggest you to place this plant in Ukraine, which is a breeding ground for the most educated people in the world and where wages are significantly lower in comparison to other European countries.”
Further, he mentions that Ukrainians are battling against corruption, and are engaged in a war in eastern Ukraine, fighting for “the fundamental rights of the democratic world.”
The scanned letter is attached below:
Kyiv Post staff writer Denys Krasnikov can be reached at [email protected].
