https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ford-gm-covid19-close-factories-1.5501927..

Despite the plant closures by other automakers, electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc.'s assembly plant in Fremont, Calif.,

remained open Wednesday. Production continued even though Alameda County on Tuesday night declared it

a "non-essential business" under the county's shelter-in-place order.

Seven Bay Area counties have ordered nearly seven million residents to shelter in place for three weeks

and ordered businesses to send employees home in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Businesses that can remain open include pharmacies, banks and supermarkets but not electric car manufacturing.

In an email to employees, Tesla Human Resources said the company does not have final word from city, county,

state and federal governments on whether the plant can operate.

Tesla has conflicting guidance from different levels of government, the email said.

The note said production workers should still report for work unless they aren't feeling well.

If that's the case, they should use paid time off.

The email said there would be further communication Wednesday night.