https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/05/11/tesla-defies-bay-area-coronavirus-orders-restarts-fremont-plant/ > Tesla, one of the Bay Area’s largest manufacturers, resumed operations at its Fremont plant Monday in a high-profile act of defiance to regional public health orders meant to contain the spread of the fatal COVID-19 disease. > CEO Elon Musk, who has threatened to move his electric car manufacturing company out of California and has filed suit over the local orders, announced the reopening on Twitter. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me,” wrote Musk, who has called shelter in place rules “fascist” and initially refused to close his plant in March when the Bay Area issued its first-in-the-nation orders.