Elon Musk: “It's an incorporated city, like legally a city.”

“Down by the river, literally within sight of the Rio Grande. And on an actual sandbar. Kind of had to have like an inspirational name. And then we made it a city. So It's an incorporated city, like legally a city. You don't hear about new cities being formed that often. The last time there was a company town, it was Disney World. Yeah, I think Ford had some kind of like company town situations.” (25:28–25:32)

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