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Standing up to Elon!
Long a laggard, Spätzünder Germany has gone electric vehicle crazy! Sales in March increased by 200 percent on last year and, as we’ve reported, Volkswagen’s stock is up 60 percent since January on hopes that the Wolfsburgians will overtake Tesla.
The icing on the electric cake will be Elon Musk’s Gigafactory in Grünheide just outside of Berlin. The first factory of its kind in Europe is set to open before the summer. If only Brandenburg’s Landesumweltamt would provide the necessary approval…
Tesla had expected Brandenburg’s prime minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) to give them the green light last summer.
But summer turned to autumn and no approval came…
Autumn turned to winter and, while Elon Musk overtook Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest man, he was still waiting for that certificate.
A new deadline - the end of March - came and went. Still no approval.
Tesla has built the €5.8 billion factory on temporary a…
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