North Rhine-Westphalia lobbies for Tesla Gigafactory

The government of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has expressed interest in hosting the American car company Tesla’s electric vehicle and battery production facility, Handelsblatt reports. The state’s economy minister, Andreas Pinkwart, informed the California-based company in a letter of its planned Green Battery Campus in Euskirchen, the article says. Tesla is also considering the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland as potential locations for its planned Gigafactory, which would produce electric cars and batteries, according to the article.

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For background, read the dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers and the article Chinese-German battery cell deal key step for mobility transition.