In a deal expected to create hundreds of jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tesla Motors said late Thursday that it is teaming up with Toyota to build its all-electric Model S sedan at the shuttered NUMMI plant in Fremont.

For months, the city of Downey has been working with Palo Alto-based Tesla in the hopes that the automaker would locate its factory there. The Downey City Council was hours away from voting on the terms of a lease for Tesla at the site of Downey Studios, just outside Los Angeles. The plant was expected to initially create up to 1,200 jobs.

Downey Councilman Mario Guerra told the Associated Press that the council was informed earlier Thursday the two carmakers will build the cars at Fremont’s recently shuttered New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant.

Toyota ended its manufacturing operations in California when the last car rolled off the assembly line at NUMMI in April. The plant had started as joint venture between Toyota and General Motors to help the American car company learn to make vehicles more like its Japanese competitor.

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