According to some industry sources, the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, has been deepening talks with a possible new automotive manufacturer in recent weeks, but the news is that the most serious contacts would be with Elon Musk's Tesla for a possible production of electric trucks and/or vans, a line partly still in design, and therefore not cars. The talks have been going on since last summer, parallel to those initiated with three Chinese manufacturers, again for possible production investments in the electric sector: Byd, Great Wall Motors and Chery Automobile. With the latter, in particular, dialogue has reportedly entered a more advanced stage in the past month after a series of site visits to former industrial areas in the South proposed by ministry officials as possible locations. For Minister Urso, Italy's monoproduction - with only Stellantis established in the country - remains an anomaly in the negative, in a scenario that sees, for example, Germany with six car manufacturers (plus one for vans), France with 4, Spain with 7, the Czech Republic with 3, and Hungary with 4 destined to reach 5 with Byd.
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