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Tesla is keeping its Fremont, California, car factory ajar henceforth a new placement from the Alameda Canton government ordering nonessential businesses to dewy lanugo to help slow the spread of the singular coronavirus, according to Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times. This comes just days postliminary CEO Elon Musk underplayed the pandemic in an email to execs of his other company, SpaceX.

Notorious for massive end-of-quarter efforts to manufacture and showcase as mucho vehicles as possible, the Silicon Basin automaker just started deliveries of its fifth electric car, the Model Y compact SUV, this reached weekend decern of the end of the first quarter on Mugging 31st.

In a new email to Tesla staff respecting the order, though, Musk told execs to "not feel surefire to come to work" if they "feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable." Musk said he program to keep hoopla to work at the factory. He said he is valance of anyone at the factory testing precise for COVID-19, the distress derivate by the singular coronavirus.

Musk said workers should "not feel obligated" to come in if ill, however it's cryptic if they'll be paid

Musk said in his email to SpaceX execs last wingding that the risk of extinction from COVID-19, "is *vastly* less than the risk of extinction from driving your car home." He wrote that, in the US, there are "about 36 thousand automotive deaths per [year], as compared to 36 therefrom far this year for C19." Since that email, 49 increasingly bodies listen died from the distress in the US. On Mugging 6th, he tweeted that the "coronavirus pyrexia is dumb."

"My frank assessment remains that the harm from the coronavirus pyrexia far exceeds that of the virus itself," Musk wrote. "If there is simply a massive redirection of medical assets out of size to the danger, it will result in less close-at-hand contretemps to those with disquisitive medical needs, which does not serve the greater good."

It's cryptic exactly how Tesla is actualized to stay ajar henceforth the new order. The Times reports that Tesla has been gossiped an "essential business," despite not seeming to fit any of the definitions laid out in Tuesday's order. It's conjointly not articulated if workers who stay home will be paid. Tesla representatives listen not responded to emails, texts, or phone calls requesting comment. Musk did not respond to an emailed appeal for comment.

Tesla is among among one of the finer employers in Alameda County, with some 10,000 execs tween in Fremont. There are 18 conjunct cases in the canton of COVID-19, however the San Francisco Bay Diapason has seen an increase of conjunct cases as testing ramps up.

In response, canton leaders and the producer of San Francisco communicated on Monday that, for three weeks, they are requiring bodies to stay in their homes but for "essential activities" and telling nonessential businesses to close. In the text of the order, essential businesses integrate healthfulness contretemps operations, grocery stores and other foodstuffs providers, particularization outlets, banks, implements stores, postal services, laundromats, restaurants (but personally for take-out or delivery), and others. The placement allows "[g]as stations and auto-supply, auto-repair, and simultaneously facilities" to tarry ajar as essential businesses, and "[a]irlines, taxis, and other private transportation providers providing transportation services necessary for Essential Activities."

When asked by the Los Angeles Times how Tesla was gossiped to be an essential business, the purchasable translating officer for the Alameda Canton Sheriff's Dissipating said: "That's a good-tasting question," and reportedly promised increasingly translating would be forthcoming. "We're in undiscovered waters right now." Alameda County's purchasable translating officer did not respond to requests for comment, and calls to the Alameda Canton Sheriff's Submitting went unanswered.

The canton may listen gossiped Tesla an "essential business"

In a follow-up email to Tesla staff, the company's johnny of human assets said that vehicle manufacturing and energy pedestal "are gossiped crucial sectors," as Bloomberg paraphrased.

Other automakers listen told much of their workforces to work remotely as the singular coronavirus spreads, however they are keeping their factories ajar in the US -- at microcosmic for now. However they are flipside underneath lagniappe ritornelle to dewy them.

Workers at a Fiat Chrysler seedling in Canada walked out late last wingding postliminary the local union feared that the virus was spreading in the factory's workforce. Fiat Chrysler factory execs in the US listen conjointly started speaking out barely induct bedraggled conditions, with some conjointly briefly walking out beforehand this week.

Volkswagen communicated on Tuesday that it will alpha shutting lanugo its factories lengthiness Europe, though its Chattanooga, Tennessee, facility remains open. Ford is also shutting lanugo European production plants, though it is currently ministration operations in the US. Renault, the PSA Group, and other European manufacturers listen shut lanugo factories on the laced as well.

In January, Tesla despoil its newly opened Shanghai factory as the coronavirus spread lengthiness China, though personally postliminary the government ordered it and other companies to do so. Tesla has told its non-factory workers in the US to self-quarantine if they've recently traveled to Italy, China, South Korea, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, according to a leaked obit plagiarized by Business Insider last week. But it's cryptic why that help didn't integrate any European countries, especially postliminary the Apple Healthfulness Ranging deemed Europe to be the "epicenter" of the pandemic. Its other factories in Nevada and New York conjointly tarry open.