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GRUENHEIDE: Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electrical automotive maker’s first European plant on Wednesday as manufacturing resumed on the manufacturing unit simply exterior Berlin a few week after a suspected arson assault reduce its energy provide. Musk was anticipated at a “team huddle” with staff on the plant within the Gruenheide municipality, worker council chief Michaela Schmitz advised regional broadcaster RBB’s Inforadio channel. Reporters on the scene might see him arriving from a distance. Manufacturing at Tesla’s plant in Gruenheide got here to a standstill on Tuesday final week. Tens of 1000’s of residents, close by hospitals, nursing properties and a giant logistics centre for a German grocery chain have been additionally initially affected. The electrical energy provide to the plant was restored on Monday night. Schmitz stated that, after machines have been checked and began up, “the early shift can begin (work) again this morning.” She added: “People are glad to be able to come back to work.” Authorities within the state of Brandenburg, the place the plant is situated, have stated they believe that somebody intentionally set hearth to a high-voltage transmission line on an electrical energy pylon. A far-left organisation calling itself the Volcano Group stated it was behind the fireplace, accusing Tesla of “extreme exploitation conditions” and calling for the “complete destruction of the gigafactory.” The German federal prosecutor’s workplace took over the investigation, citing an preliminary suspicion {that a} terrorist organisation could have been concerned within the assault. Tesla opened the manufacturing unit in March 2022, launching a problem to German automakers on their house turf. The ability outage got here as environmental activists have been protesting in a forest close to the plant in opposition to plans to develop the power. The corporate now desires so as to add a freight depot, warehouses and a kindergarten. These plans would entail felling greater than 100 hectares (247 acres) of forest. That has drawn opposition from environmentalists and another native teams, who additionally fear about potential results on the realm’s water provide.

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