The installation of the Tesla gigafactory in Nuevo León will boost Chihuahua suppliers more than four times, revealed the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Martha Delgado.

This was stated by Martha Delgado Peralta in an interview with Reforma and recalled that there are already 127 Tesla suppliers in Mexico for its plant in Austin, Texas.

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The suppliers are located in Nuevo León, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Estado de México and Chihuahua.

“There are indicators that show us that a facility like this detonates close to 450% of the supply chain,” said the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights.

Thus, these companies will have to expand their capacity, mainly electrical and auto parts manufacturers.

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In fact, it revealed that part of the work carried out by the SRE was the landing of suppliers in states such as Chihuahua and Nuevo León, as well as the identification of Mexican suppliers in the Bajío region.

It is worth mentioning that the Tesla plant in Nuevo León intends to produce one million electric vehicles a year, which is a large number and implies up to 10,000 direct jobs.

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