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The City Council in Downey, Calif., has approved an agreement aimed at bringing an electric car assembly plant to the Los Angeles suburb.

The council voted unanimously Wednesday to approve an agreement with the owner of the Downey Studios lot to broker a lease deal with Tesla Motors.

The San Carlos-based carmaker has been looking for a location to build its next-generation Model S sedan, which could travel as far as 300 miles on a charge. The car is slated to go into production in late 2011 with a base price of $57,400.

The plant would employ up to 1,500 people at the site of a former NASA manufacturing plant.

Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes would not say whether it has chosen Downey as the plant’s location.

DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — Tesla Motors is close to a deal to build an electric car factory at the site of a former NASA manufacturing plant in this blue-collar city south of Los Angeles, Mayor Mario Guerra said Tuesday.

Guerra said he has called an emergency City Council meeting to approve a memorandum of understanding with Industrial Realty Group, the private owners of the complex. If approved Wednesday, the memorandum could facilitate a lease agreement with the automaker.

“We’re excited by the possibility of Tesla coming here,” Guerra said. “We feel this could become the greenest manufacturing plant in North America.”

The city is involved in the negotiations because it owns 20 acres of the 80-acre complex. Guerra declined to discuss terms of the deal before the council meeting.

Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes declined to comment. A call to an IRG official was not immediately returned.

San Carlos-based Tesla, which makes the $109,000 Roadster electric sports car, has been looking for a factory to build its next-generation Model S sedan.

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