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Police say they have filed 76 criminal charges and temporarily detained 23 activists during days of protests against US electric car manufacturer Tesla at its manufacturing plant outside Berlin. These included five activists who were brought before a magistrate, the police announced on Sunday. However, all of them were eventually released from custody. According to the police, the criminal charges mainly related to offences against the assembly law, coercion in road traffic, acts of resistance, breach of the peace and damage to property. Since Wednesday, several organizations had been calling ...
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Further protest action against the Tesla's expansion of its giant electric car factory near Berlin is possible in the coming days despite the end of recent demonstrations, several activist groups warned on Sunday. The alliance Tesla den Hahn abdrehen ("Cut off Tesla's water" - in reference to the company's huge water usage) said it will attend Thursday's local council meeting in Grünheide on the growth plans for the US company's Gigafactory. If the council votes in favour of significantly expanding the site, contrary to a public consultation, the allied protest group Disrupt Tesla "will be bac...
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More than 1,000 environmental activists participated in a protest march against the Tesla electric car factory outside Berlin on Saturday, according to the police, following clashes and arrests the previous day. Police also reported isolated clashes between participants and officers on Saturday and pyrotechnics were also set off, a spokesman said. Overall, however, the march had largely passed off peacefully, it said. The police did not initially provide any information about possible injuries or arrests. The demonstrators headed from a nearby railway station to US tech billionaire Elon Musk's...
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Activists protesting against an expansion of Tesla's electric car factory near Berlin said they want to warn of dangers to the environment, but also criticized other car manufacturers at a press conference on Saturday. "It doesn't matter if it's Tesla, VW or Mercedes - car companies and their political supporters are responsible for selling out our lifeblood," said the spokeswoman of the Disrupt Tesla group, Lucia Mende, ahead of a planned demonstration. "We must prevent this and we will prevent it," she added. A citizens' initiative in Grünheide, where US tech billionaire Elon Musk has built ...
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Local police were braced on Saturday for further protests at the Tesla factory site in Grünheide near Berlin, following violent clashes the previous day. "We are sensitized," said a police spokesman. The situation had been calm during the night and in the morning, he added. A citizens' alliance is planning a protest march from a nearby railway station to the Tesla factory in the afternoon. According to the police, the local A10 motorway junction has been closed in both directions. The police advised drivers to widely avoid the area. On Friday, there were repeated clashes between protesters and...
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Activists tried to break into Tesla's electric car factory in Germany just outside Berlin on Friday during a demonstration against a proposed plant expansion, according to police. So far, the demonstrators had not succeeded in accessing the Tesla plant grounds, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday afternoon, but had managed to overcome the first fences on the property. The police spokesman described the situation as "dynamic." One woman has been injured in the protests around the factory site so far, and three police officers have also been injured, he said. According to the police, several a...
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US electric car manufacturer Tesla has presented its futuristic Cybertruck in Germany, though it is still unclear whether it will ever be allowed to drive on German roads. The 3.1-ton, 5.68-metre vehicle was on display in a shopping centre on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on Thursday. According to the company, it is the first presentation for the general public in Germany. Previously, the new truck had only been on display in Germany at the Tesla factory in Grünheide near Berlin, according to the company owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The presentation in Berlin is the start of a European tou...
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US electric car manufacturer Tesla last quarter recorded its first drop in sales in nearly four years. Total revenue fell by 9% year-on-year to $21.3 billion, the manufacturer announced after the US stock exchange closed on Tuesday. Analysts had expected an average turnover of $22.15 billion. Tesla's earnings per share were also below market expectations. On balance, the net income attributable to common stockholders in the quarter fell by 55% to $1.13 billion. The decline became apparent after Tesla earlier this month announced it missed expectations with deliveries of around 387,000 vehicles...
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Tesla is to cut 400 jobs at its only European plant near Berlin, the US carmaker said in a press release on Tuesday, following an announcement to cut 10% of its global workforce. In order to avoid compulsory redundancies, the company is planning a "voluntary programme" for employees. Talks will be held with the works council to implement this program, it said. Tesla did not initially provide any details on this. "The currently weakening sales market for e-cars is also presenting Tesla with challenges," was one of the reasons given for the job cuts. Last week, the car manufacturer announced tha...
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Tesla says it is reducing the number of temporary workers at its only European plant near Berlin, after announcing plans to cut 10% of its global workforce. A spokeswoman for the company said 300 temporary workers had been given notice. "This is not a termination of Tesla employees," she said. The portal Business Insider had earlier reported that the contracts of temporary workers would not be extended. The spokeswoman told dpa: "As far as we know, our contractual partner has already been able to transfer the majority of these temporary workers to new employment with other customers." In March...
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