..apart from pandering to Trump to show on-shoring, this could be Elon's contingency plan if he loses the licence to produce in China (if it gets that bad).
..Trump wants his big American companies to onshore their production, but that negates the entire reason why they produced them abroad - it cost more to produce domestically.
..now Tesla exports its cars to EU from China, so if Elon wants to export them from US, and EU applies tariffs on US, his Tesla cars would be even pricier.
...Tesla produced in America for Americans, or rather Republican Americans.
