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Mr. Musk said Tesla is exploring “a lot of different options,” including what he called a “giga-factory…raw materials coming in” and finished battery packs coming out. Tesla could build such a plant with partners, he said. “That factory would most likely be in North America.”

“We’re talking about something comparable to all lithium ion production in the world, in one factory,” he said.

Mr. Musk’s idea echoes Henry Ford’s Rouge factory complex near Detroit, which during its heyday in the early 20th Century took iron ore in at one end, and rolled Model T’s off an assembly line at the other.

The Rouge complex is now much diminished. Ford builds F-series pickup trucks at a new factory on the Rouge site. The steel operation was sold to a Russian company.

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