Elon Musk on Wednesday visited Tesla’s European gigafactory in Gruenheide, Germany, the place operations had resumed after an arson assault on a close-by electrical energy pylon final week led to a pricey energy outage that halted manufacturing.
The Tesla chief govt, who was pictured on the German manufacturing facility sporting a black T-shirt that learn “We’re (Giga) the long run,” shouted “Hey, Deutschland rocks! Dig in Berlin for the win!” as he walked out of the manufacturing facility and received right into a automotive.
Tesla’s manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Berlin was reconnected to the grid on Monday after the March 5 arson attack, claimed by far-left activists.
In a submit on X, Musk thanked workers for his or her efforts: “Because of the onerous work of the Tesla Giga Berlin workforce and assist from the neighborhood, the manufacturing facility is again on-line!”
The assault southeast of the German capital set an electrical energy pylon near the location ablaze, however the hearth didn’t unfold to the Tesla facility – the U.S. electrical car maker’s first manufacturing plant in Europe.
Tesla has stated it expects lots of of hundreds of thousands of euros in damages because of the disruption to manufacturing.
Works council head Michaela Schmitz had informed native radio broadcaster RBB on Wednesday that there could be a workforce assembly on the plant with Musk. She stated manufacturing had resumed after the week-long outage.
“The machines have been restarted in a managed and protected method in order that the early shift can resume,” Schmitz informed RBB.
Musk has not made any statements about his plans whereas in Germany, although native media have stated that he may meet with political leaders within the state of Brandenburg.
