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Lithuania’s former prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė admits her concern about how much influence people like technology billionaire Elon Musk may have on US President Donald Trump and his administration.

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė says she would like to see SpaceX expanding in Lithuania after she has recently met with Brett Johnsen, one of the executives of the US giant.

As part of his dream of a traffic-free future, Elon Musk has been talking for a while now about boring a tunnel under Los Angeles from the HQ of his SpaceX company to LAX, the city’s airport. In fact, he has actually started taking the first steps towards making this seemingly crazy idea come true.

The virtual factory of electric elements for US electric car manufacturer Tesla built by Lithuanians shows that the Baltic state features talented specialists, and the name of Lithuania was put on the map after the US company noticed their work, says businessman Vladas Lašas.

A day after the Tesla Motors lithium accumulator factory opened in Nevada, government and business representatives met for a discussion of the potential to build such a gigafactory in Lithuania as well.