The Tesla factory in Fremont. (Photo by Wolfram Burner/Flickr)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reopened the carmaker’s facility in Fremont on Monday against Alameda County public health orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic and said he is willing to risk arrest to do so.

Musk on Saturday had vented on Twitter about the county orders — part of a regional shelter-in-place order meant to limit the spread of the virus — saying Tesla would “move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately” and that a lawsuit was being filed against the county.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.