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It’s electric! Tesla workers at NUMMI plant!

Today, Tesla Motors took possession of the vacant, state-of-the-art NUMMI factory in Fremont, where cars were once built for General Motors and Toyota. Tesla agreed in May to pay $42 million for the Nummi factory. Today, Tesla held no ceremonies and deliberately kept a low profile.

Tesla now has only 40 employees working at the plant, including 30 former Nummi employees. The team is focused on setting up manufacturing lines and equipment and on hiring “an outstanding manufacturing team.”

Tesla plans to start production of the Model S electric sedan in 2012 and will have 1,000 employees when it reaches full production, after ramping up hiring in 2011.

Also on Friday, Tesla said that it is recalling 439 battery-powered Roadster models 2.0 and 2.5 after a SINGLE report of a cable that broke after chafing against a carbon-fiber panel. There were no injuries.

(Note added October 27, 2010: The biggest Tesla sign to date….)

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