Elon Musk met with Mongolia's prime minister to discuss possible expansion

Mongolia's premier curate Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene and Tesla CEO Elon Musk connected Monday discussed imaginable enlargement and investments into the Asian state implicit a virtual meeting.

"They discussed the anticipation of welcoming Tesla to Mongolia for its electrical vehicles artillery factory, leveraging the country's wide availability of copper and uncommon world elements, which are indispensable components of electrical cars' batteries," according to a connection issued connected behalf of the Mongolian government.

The East Asian state is affluent successful minerals and boasts ample deposits of copper, golden and coal.

"The Mongolian Government is committed to cooperating with planetary organisations to assistance boost the improvement of caller technologies and rise concern successful the country," the connection said.

A connection from the furniture secretariat of Mongolia's government added that the country's premier curate emphasized his enactment for the usage of electrical cars and urged Mongolian citizens to usage specified vehicles.

Musk and Oyun-Erdene besides spoke astir bringing Starlink — a outer communications terminals and services supplier operated by the Musk-founded SpaceX — to Mongolia. Starlink was registered arsenic a institution successful Mongolia successful 2022 and is expected to motorboat regionally this year.

Musk's gathering with the Mongolian person comes aft the tech elephantine past week met with Chinese vice premier Ding Xuexiang and different apical officials successful China, arsenic Beijing looks to represent a affable concern situation for overseas companies amid tensions with the U.S.

The Tesla CEO complimented China's technological advances and visited the Tesla gigafactory successful Shanghai.