Tesla Wins California, Is Now the State’s Largest Auto Employer

Description: Tesla’s meteoric rise in share price and profile has seemingly hit a new layer of the stratosphere, as Bloomberg reports the company’s reported employee count tops that of California’s previous top auto employer, Toyota. And those figures include all of Toyota’s current Golden State employees—many of whom will soon be shipped off to Texas, strengthening Tesla’s dominance of the state’s auto sector. The news further bolsters Tesla’s news-cycle prominence—see, we covered this