Elon Musk will meet Emmanuel Macron for the second time in a month as the French president tries to persuade the billionaire to open a Tesla gigafactory.

France has been courting Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD and Tesla to build factories in the country but is competing with other EU countries such as Spain, which is in talks with Tesla too, according to Reuters.

Mr Musk will visit the VivaTech summit in Paris later today, France’s biggest tech fair.

Mr Macron told reporters at the event: “I’m going (into that meeting) with an agenda.

“We’re going to talk about artificial intelligence, in which he is involved, social media, regulation framework... And then I’ll also talk to him about cars, batteries, to promote French and European attractiveness.”

Asked specifically whether he was hoping to secure a Tesla gigafactory, Mr Macron said: “It’s up to the company to look at these different issues in Europe. So we’ll be selling France.”

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