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DETROIT - Like a major-league baseball team threatening to leave for a new city out West unless its rundown, depressed hometown builds a shiny new stadium, “zero-emissions” carmaker Tesla Motors was looking to move its fledgling electric auto manufacturing to New Mexico. California has come through with the equivalent of Baltimore’s Camden Yards. It will waive the sales tax for Tesla’s investment in business equipment, resulting in “millions of dollars in savings,” governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday. “If they choose to build their factory in an enterprise zone, they’ll save millions more,” he says.

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