Tesla cites Brexit as Germany chosen over UK for European plant
 

Tesla’s boss Elon Musk has said Brexit uncertainty played a role in the firm’s decision to build its first European factory in Germany rather than the UK.

The billionaire entrepreneur revealed that the firm’s European battery plant would be built on the outskirts of Berlin.

Speaking to Auto Express after making the announcement, Musk said: “Brexit [uncertainty] made it too risky to put a gigafactory in the UK.”

The US electric carmaker also plans to locate a research and development base in the German capital.
The Guardian




Brexit Britain:skull:

yes if mps in parliament had done what they should have rather than out of spite due to losing musk would be making his batteries in the UK. labour have a lot to answer for.

Close the thread, we have the answer.

of course, another attempt to shove it all onto labour



the blame is with the ''brexit'' part, ''brexit britain'' is flawed, and that lies onto the conservatives, and that self-absorbed a-hole farage with brexit party elitist goons

if there was no brexit whatsoever, Musk would've chosen UK, not Germany

Nothing will ever be viewed as the fault of brexit to the extremists. Rather than understanding there is no deal better than the one we have, they'll seek to blame anyone and everyone except brexit and those who pushed it.

not to forget, some of those brexit party deluded idiots (grant sisters, most loyal farage fans) who had said rather disgusting things about EU, europe


so yeah Musk is right, it would be bad for trade with europe to put that plant in UK, so he's very wise to prefer Germany as their location

we won't need so many jobs when we get rid of all the immigrants

The motto of a modern, world leading country right there.

What a terrible place the UK is, eh Nicky? Surprises me you want to be involved with us at all.

In other news...

The unemployment rate: At its lowest level since 1974.

Full time employment: At a record high, and up by almost 3 million since 2010.

Wages: Average weekly earnings for employees increased by 3.6 per cent compared with a year earlier – growing by 1.8 per cent after adjusting for inflation – meaning people have more money in their pockets. Wages have increased ahead of prices for 20 months in a row.​

Youth unemployment: There are 438,000 fewer young people out of work since 2010 – almost halving since 2010.​

Female employment: There are 1.8 million more women in work since 2010​.

Ethnic minority: The number of people from an ethnic minority in work is at a record high. There are 1.2 million more people from an ethnic minority background in work since January-march 2010, increasing from 2,736,000 to 4,026,000.​

Disabled: The number of disabled people in work has increased by 1.3 million, and is now at a record high with the number of disabled people out of work at a record low.​

Let's wait for brexit and then revisit the statistics

and what would be a fair period to wait to make a comparison?

I don't understand this, when immigrants disappear jobs will too..how?

With regard to Tesla if Musk wants to have a plant in Europe, if there's the risk we won't be in Europe when it opens then it's obvious he won't want it here :/