Tesla is building its Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, with plans to make the municipality the biggest battery producer in the world. — REUTERS
Elon Musk surprised the automotive establishment when he selected a small town in eastern Germany for Tesla Inc.’s first European car factory. The politician who drew him there now wants to turn the region into a major electric-vehicle supply hub.
The battery-cell production facility Tesla plans to add at the electric-vehicle plant it’s building in Gruenheide could be online in roughly two years, Joerg Steinbach, economy minister in the state of Brandenburg, said in an interview.
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