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Elon Musk does the happy dance opening huge gigafactory in Berlin
In a world first for Tesla, CEO Elon Musk has opened a huge electric car “gigafactory” in Europe, near Berlin.
Elon musk is doing a happy dance after opening the first European hub for Tesla.
The plant was delayed for eight months after local authority licensing problems.
The more than €5 billion factory is the biggest investment in a German car plant in recent history.
Tesla said more than 3,000 of the factory’s expected 12,000 workers had been hired so far.
At full capacity, the plant will produce half a million cars annually, that’s more than the 450,000 battery-electric vehicles that German rival Volkswagen sold globally last year.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the plant was a sign of progress and the future of the car industry.
Musk says this is “another step in the direction of a sustainable future”.