German auto parts plant linked to Tesla pulls into San Antonio

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July 7, 2021Updated: July 7, 2021 11:04 a.m.

German-based ElringKlinger is opening a caller car works successful San Antonio.

A German car parts manufacturing institution with ties to Tesla is coming to the East Side. ElringKlinger AG is moving into a gathering astatine 4222 IH-35, adjacent Fort Sam Houston, according to reporting by the Express-News.

The works is poised to bring 52 new, full-time jobs implicit 4 years, including accumulation worker, engineering, and technician positions. In documents filed with the metropolis connected June 17, ElringKlinger said the jobs volition person an mean of wage of $50,163. At slightest 15 of those positions volition marque much than $50,000, positive benefits.

Along with caller jobs, the institution says it plans astatine to put $16.8 cardinal successful superior improvements implicit the adjacent 2 years.

A caller German car parts shaper is speeding up with plans to unfastened an East Side plant.

As the Express-News points out, it's hard not to marque the transportation betwixt ElringKlinger's enlargement plans into the Alamo City and a definite electrical automotive institution that precocious relocated its office to Texas.

Though it's wide reportedly that ElringKlinger makes a lightweight, cockpit cross-car beam for Tesla vehicles, neither institution has ever publically confirmed their relationship. In documents filed with the City of San Antonio, ElringKlinger refers lone to having a "supplier narration with a starring electrical car and artillery company."

The German-based automaker's caller determination disconnected I-35 makes it a abbreviated thrust to Tesla's caller gigafactory, which is presently underway successful Travis County, adjacent Austin.

Currently, ElringKlinger says it employs astir 800 radical crossed the U.S. astatine manufacturing facilities successful Buford, Georgia; Fremont, California; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Southfield, Michigan.

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