Elon Musk threatens to exit California as Tesla sues over continued shutdown

Elon Musk lashed out at the California county blocking Tesla from reopening its only US car plant, threatening to immediately relocate operations to other states and cease manufacturing at the factory. Hours after the chief executive tweeted that Tesla would sue Alameda County, which did not allow the facility to resume operations Friday, the electric car maker filed a complaint with the US District Court in San Francisco. Tesla claims the county’s health order violates due process and “puts businesses deemed critical to the nation’s well-being by the federal and state governments between a rock and a hard place”. Mr Musk, who has called coronavirus-related shutdown orders fascist, said...