This Tuesday, March 22, in Grünheide, the atmosphere “reminiscent of Berghain”. For the inauguration of the Gigafactory Tesla – the first European electric car factory of the brand of Elon Musk – the music resounded almost as loudly as in the famous Berlin nightclub, located 35 kilometers away, says the Spiegel.
The American new technologies magnate even tried a little dance, in the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to the applause of the crowd who came to attend a “significant ceremony for German economic history”.
It must be said that in Grünheide, we had good reason to celebrate the news, assures the conservative daily The world. The establishment of Tesla in this city of approximately 9,000 inhabitants is “a glamorous beacon of hope, at a time when Germany and Europe desperately need success stories”.
The factory, built in record time, should eventually generate 12,000 jobs in a sector – that of electric cars – deemed promising by the German government. “What we know how to do today will not bring us prosperity in ten or twenty years, declared Olaf Scholz, during the inauguration. It is electric mobility that will create the jobs of tomorrow.”