After partying into the early hours of Sunday morning, Elon Musk boarded his GulfStream jet to cross the Atlantic for meetings with a European head of state.
He was not heading to Berlin, where Tesla has its one and only European gigafactory. Nor was he on the way to London, despite hopes that he will build his second facility in Britain.
Instead, Musk was flying to France to meet Emmanuel Macron.
Paris rolled out the red carpet: first, the Tesla and SpaceX boss was whisked to the Elysee Palace for a private audience with French president Emmanuel Macron.
Tesla Supercharging Station at Westfield, London (Image: Tesla)
Musk then had a tête-à-tête with Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, before dinner with 200 other business executives at the “Choose France” summit in the spectacular Palace of Versailles.
It would be easy to dismiss Musk’s visit as unserious: hours earlier he was pictured partying at electronic music events in both Los Angeles and Cabo, Mexico. While the billionaire donned a suit for his meeting with Macron, he was unshaven and joked that he had slept in the car.
Yet the tycoon’s visit was an undeniable boost for Macron and their meeting ended with Musk hinting at “significant investments in France” to come.
Read more: MSN
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