The electric carmaker already occupies 34 public showrooms and service centres in Britain. It has previously been linked to plans to build a vast gigafactory in the UK, although the effort has never materialised.
In 2019, Mr Musk rejected the UK for major expansion of its electric vehicle manufacturing operations, instead choosing a plant near Berlin because Brexit had “made it too risky”.
The following year, Property Week reported the Department for Transport had tried to find a 4 million sq ft site to house a UK Tesla plant as its progress in Germany stalled.
Tesla’s gigafactories – robot-powered assembly facilities where it assembles its cars and EV batteries – typically occupy several million sq ft of space.
The electric car company is working with German logistics company DB Schenker, which specialises in the transportation of the batteries used to power electric vehicles, on the new UK site, React News added.
The Milton Keynes units have been developed by CBRE-owned Trammell Crow, which acquired a warehouse on the site previously owned by Philip Green’s Arcadia Group. The property was demolished, with three modern buildings replacing it.
The buildings include capacity on the roof for solar panel arrays and are connected to power reserves to provide electric vehicle charging.
Trammell Crow declined to comment.
