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The West made a lot of fuss about alternative energy sources before eventually going back to fossil fuels, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Putin made his remark during a meeting with the winners of the 'Leaders of Russia'...
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Tesla's European plant was supposed to open on 1 July, now it is postponed indefinitely Jul 05, 2021, 02:19 PM facebook Christophe Gateau/Getty Images Permitting issues and environmental activists have delayed the plant's opening. Tesla plans to churn out 500,000 cars at the plant, which is critical to its European strategy. "Deutschland rocks," Elon Musk told reporters during a September 2020 visit to the construction site of Tesla's first European car plant. Nearly a year later, Gigafactory Berlin's planned July 1 opening date has come and gone, and there's n...
Tesla is on a collision course with Germany's biggest union and neither side is likely to back down tlevin@businessinsider.com (Tim Levin) © Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory will be the cornerstone of its European strategy. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images Tesla is building a giant plant in Germany, but it hasn't yet made nice with the mighty auto union there. IG Metall will likely make life difficult for Tesla, which hasn't agreed to the industry's collective wage agreements. A battle with the union could threaten Tesla's ambitious plans for t...