Tesla has published the expansion plans for its plant in Grünheide, they are seen as a step on the way to becoming the world’s largest car manufacturer. What that means for the local people can be experienced over coffee and a donut.
Tesla, so much is now known, wants to double its production of electric cars in Brandenburg. Not 500,000, but one million vehicles are to be produced in the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg per year. “A declaration of war against all car manufacturers worldwide” is what the car expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer calls it. But even the richest person on earth, Tesla owner Elon Musk, cannot avoid German authorities, participation processes and environmentalists. As combative as he is. That’s why the US entrepreneur’s expansion plans have been available in several town halls in the Brandenburg municipality of Grünheide and on the Internet since Wednesday.