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The construction site for Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin. AFP
The construction site for Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin. AFP
Tesla receives conditional green light to build long-delayed $5.5bn gigafactory in Germany
The plant, which is crucial to CEO Elon Musk's ambitions to vanquish European market leader Volkswagen, was initially supposed to open last summer