Construction on Tesla’s upcoming Gigafactory in Mexico has faced delays in recent weeks, but there’s fresh optimism as the northern state’s Governor, Samuel García Sepúlveda, has announced a new groundbreaking date.
While some preliminary construction has started in the area, the official groundbreaking was postponed due to environmental permitting concerns. However, in a recent statement, Governor García Sepúlveda revealed that Giga Mexico’s construction will now commence on March 3, as reported by Mexican publication Milenio. The factory will be located in Santa Catarina, within the Monterrey metro area, close to the city’s Terralta sector.
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“See you also from this Sunday to the other in Terralta, because we started the construction of Tesla,” García Sepúlveda expressed. “Tesla starts next Sunday, there will come a lot of investment, a lot of development, a lot of spillover.”
The Governor emphasized the long-term impact of the Tesla factory, contrasting it with the upcoming 2026 World Cup hosted at the Rayados stadium in Nuevo León. “The World Cup is already in two years, but it lasts two months and then this legacy will stay for us and our children,” he added.
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This announcement follows García Sepúlveda’s statement earlier this month that construction would likely begin in March, after delays in updating environmental permits. The government has also requested an extension for the environmental permitting process, as the factory is expected to be larger than initially planned.
“Giga Mexico will be a three-phase project,” García Sepúlveda explained, “eventually producing batteries, the Model Y, and the Cybertruck, in addition to Tesla’s next-generation, lower-cost electric vehicle (EV), expected to begin production by the second half of 2025, according to CEO Elon Musk.
