The question of where Tesla’s long-awaited new Roadster would be built has finally been answered — and it’s not Fremont. In a new interview, Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen confirmed that the Roadster will be manufactured at Gigafactory Texas, with early planning already underway.

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The quote from the interview, shared by Sawyer Merritt, is direct: “We can say it’s going to be built in Texas. We’ve made first plans on that and you start to see a lot of things start to unfold in the next months.” That phrasing — “first plans” and “next months” — suggests the program is moving from concept into early production engineering, even if a launch date remains unannounced.

The Texas location surprised at least some in the community. Whole Mars Catalog noted the decision was unexpected, having assumed Fremont would be the natural home for a halo sports car.

That reaction makes sense historically — Fremont has been Tesla’s primary passenger car plant since the company’s early days. But Giga Texas has been scaling rapidly since opening in 2022, and consolidating the Roadster there keeps the program within Tesla’s newest, most advanced domestic facility. Elon Musk had previously mentioned Texas as a potential Roadster site as far back as April 2022, so this confirmation aligns with that earlier signal.

On timing: according to previous statements from Musk, production is targeted to begin in 2027, with low-volume output potentially starting in late 2027 and scaling through 2028. The reveal itself — which Musk has described as potentially “one of the most spectacular demos ever” — was most recently pushed to late May or early June 2026 after missing an earlier April 1 target. If that reveal happens on schedule, the production countdown clock starts soon. The executives’ mention of things beginning to “unfold in the next months” suggests the reveal and early engineering milestones are converging.

For reservation holders who have been waiting since 2017, this is the most concrete manufacturing detail to emerge in years. Giga Texas is confirmed. Planning has started. The next milestone to watch is the production-spec reveal — which, if Musk’s timeline holds, could come within weeks.

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