California's biggest auto employer is now Tesla

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May 19, 2014

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California's biggest auto employer is now Tesla

Tesla now employs more people than Toyota. It's a gap that's set to grow when Toyota moves many positions to Texas by 2017.

Tesla Motors has outsold several luxury carmakers in California in 2013, on the strength of its Model S, seen here in the foreground. The Telsa Roadster is behind it.

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Tesla now employs more people than Toyota. It's a gap that's set to grow when Toyota moves many positions to Texas by 2017.

The sales of Tesla's all-electric cars continue to climb, and so does the size of its workforce.

Tesla is now the biggest auto-industry employer in California -- employing even more people than Toyota. It's a gap that's set to grow when Toyota moves many positions to Texas by 2017.

Alan Ohnsman, reporter for Bloomberg News, explains to Take Two what kind of jobs it's creating, and why it's not following the path of other car manufacturers to places in the South.