Tesla Inc. has overcome a legal roadblock standing in the way of Elon Musk’s plan to build an electric-car factory in Germany. A Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday ruled that Tesla can resume cutting down trees at a forest site in the small town of Gruenheide to make way for its first assembly plant in Europe. That puts the US carmaker on track to start construction before the start of a crucial breeding period for local wildlife in March. Tesla has already cut down two-thirds of the trees and should be able to fell the remainder in time. The factory will be designed with “sustainability and the environment in mind," Musk said last month on Twitter, adding Tesla will plant three new trees for every one cut.

Source: Mint February 21, 2020 03:00 UTC