French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday, the second time in just over a month, to promote France as a possible site for one of the electric vehicle maker’s factories as well as to discuss tech regulation.
France has been courting Chinese EV giant BYD and Tesla to build factories in the country, officials previously told Reuters, but it is competing with other EU countries such as Spain, which is in talks with Tesla too, a source told Reuters.
“I’m going (into that meeting) with an agenda,” Macron told reporters as he visited the VivaTech summit in Paris, France’s biggest tech fair. Musk will visit there on Friday.
“We are going to talk about artificial intelligence, in which he is involved, social media, regulation framework … And then I will also talk to him about cars, batteries, to promote French and European attractiveness,” Macron said.
