Tesla outdoor factory Berlin under construction. Annual capacity is expected to be 500,000 vehicles.
BERLIN, 26 May (Reuters) – German police are investigating whether a chimney that exploded overnight at the site of Tesla’s first European gigaphoric structure was politically motivated, after far-left activists took responsibility.
The gruenheide chimney in east Brandenburg in the early morning of Wednesday broke several electrical cables leading to Tesla’s site and a domain of about 3 square meters, a spokesman for the LKA criminal investigation said.
The spokesman said an incendiary attack was not brazen and that investigators were reviewing a letter circulating on social media on Wednesday that credited responsibility.
The letter, published on a radical left platform, said it had cut Off Tesla’s strength by placing six high-voltage cables in a chimney above the ground.
“Tesla is not green, ecological, not social,” the letter told LKA spokesman.
Tesla, which said it could produce up to 500,000 Model Y cars on site per year, delayed opening its gigaphabic by the end of 2021 from an initial date of July 1 after adding plans to install a mobile battery plant there.
Tesla CEO Musk complained about the German bureaucracy needed for the lengthy approval procedure following the delay in plant structure through environmentalists involved in local wildlife and water resources.
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