Tesla Gigafactory Berlin stormed by climate activists: Elon Musk stops production

[Redaktion]

Climate activists stormed the site of Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin yesterday morning, forcing a halt to production. Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on the protest on X, calling for tougher police action against the demonstrators.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-Gigafactory-Berlin-stormed-by-climate-activists-Elon-Musk-stops-production.836200.0.html

[Fierce.XT]

They don't know what to complain about.
Elon should leave this crazy country.

[W T LLOYD]

It's not a forrest, it's a plantation. It is a monoculture crop, planted expressly for the purpose of making...cardboard. These trees were due to be harvested, and the resulting cleared land was sold to Tesla for the purpose of providing jobs and electric vehicles to Europe.
Tesla no longer uses cobalt in their batteries. Tesla is using so little water, far below what was permitted, that they were cited for their sewage being too concentrated and required to waste some of the highly purified recycled water from the production process.
BEV batteries are highly recyclable and there will b a point in global electrification where the majority of needed battery minerals are recycled, not mined new. That will never be the case with fossil fuel vehicles. Tesla car batteries are currently lasting 400,000 miles and more with minimal (10%) degradation over a decade. The FUD about having to buy a $20,000 battery in 5 years is idiotic and not based on fact, truth or science.

[hugh mungus]

I wonder which OPEC backed oil company funded them, or perhaps it was Gazprom?

[Fjo]

I wonder which OPEC backed oil company funded them, or perhaps it was Gazprom?

Tesla's main competitor is BYD. The CCP has a big reach and desire to dominate the EV market.

[LL]

Activist= Extremists that journalists agree with.
Extremist= Extremists or not that journalists don't agree with.

[Lonnie]

Wait! What? Are these crazy lunatics for EV vehicles? I am confused and can't keep up with the psycho left

[Sat]

16 people.  Production not stopped. Look at Elons tweet regarding the same

[hugh mungus]

I wonder which OPEC backed oil company funded them, or perhaps it was Gazprom?

Tesla's main competitor is BYD. The CCP has a big reach and desire to dominate the EV market.

Yes but BYD doesn't have the money or political clout to throw money into the "use false flag environmental protestors to attempt to harm competition". Meanwhile it's documented that oil companies, including state owned ones in OPEC and OPEC aligned countries, do indeed engage in that.

[Anonymousgg]

Ah yes the bipolar criminal is all for free speech as long as it's right wing extremism or himself.

Ah yes, the free "speech" consisting of attacking a building.

[LL]

Not only attacking a building, also attacking the freedom and rights of other persons  like right to work, travel etc.

[Gallo123]

Great to see residents fighting for their homeland.

Whether they are right or wrong, it's their home to decide, not ours. Too many times people have been trampled on by unelected bureaucrats.

[NikoB]

The "greens" need to shout more about the stupid growth of the population by 2 times since the 1970s and the barbaric deforestation in South America (the population has more than doubled), Russia (despite the fact that the population there has fallen in 35 years), Africa ( the population grew more than 4 times). If, of course, you believe in this official legend.

Let's stabilize the population at the level of the early 1970s! And let's reduce the consumption of developed countries by 3 times! And we will not allow anyone else to increase consumption above the specified level. And over 100 years we will gradually reduce the excess population to 1.5-2 billion well-educated, productive people, happy people, provided with everything necessary at the everyday level for a creative life and achievements for the benefit of civilization and science. And everything will be fine with the planet right away!

[Gronkus B. Donkus]

"Environmentalists" are a self-proclaimed designation of Fossil-Fuels shills.
It's a typical false-flag operation.
You will find the funding for such operations in the oil, gas, coal, and... yes... German auto industry, as they can't compete with Chinese imports or Tesla (but they can get their governments to impose taxes on Chinese EV's, something that they cannot do against Tesla.)

[anan]

This smells of NIMBY. And maybe the work safety argument could be valid. Otherwise, environmental impact arguments were addressed long ago. Germany has more stringent environmental regulations than US. Elon has complained about this during the initial construction. But all of this was addressed. Long term - EVs are better than ICE vehicles. Battery recycling is possible and being done. A lot of first gen Teslas are nearing their lifespan. That is because those early S's were not as good as current models as far as battery longevity goes. Up to this point most of battery failures were "premature". But those early models just were not made to last more than 10 years. But current LFP models should last two decades.