Mar 6, 2024 at 9:21 PM Update: 2 hours ago
Tesla’s car factory near Berlin will remain without power until at least the end of next week. A company spokesperson said this on Wednesday. On Tuesday, left-wing extremists damaged an electricity pole at the factory. As a result, production was forced to come to a standstill.
The electric car factory near the German capital suffered a power outage after an arson attack on an electricity pylon. A left-wing extremist action group has claimed responsibility for this.
According to the activists, it was a protest against the manufacturer, which wants to cut down a forest to build a train station and warehouse. Local authorities point out that this is a so-called production forest. This means that the trees grow there until they are suitable for paper production, for example.
According to the German newspaper, production cannot be run at the factory for a week and a half Bild a setback for Tesla. The company had assumed that it would be able to resume production earlier.
Tesla already estimated that the damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros. The factory has a local production of thirteen to fourteen hundred Model Y cars per day. With a sales price of around 45,000 euros, the company would lose around 60 million euros in turnover every day due to the problems in the German factory, the company said. Bild calculated.
The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling passenger car in the world in 2023. The car also finished at the top of the sales list in Europe last year. The Model Y was number one in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, among others.
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