According to Spanish press, Portugal is again in the running to receive a “huge productive core” from Tesla, after Valencia has been ruled out as a possible location for the “gigafactory”.

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    1 year ago

    According to german news they had to let go hundreds of temporary workers, they cancelled the extra shifts and reduced the regular shifts from 3 to 2.5. Sorry I don’t have an english link. So it doesn’t look too good imho.

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    1 year ago

    Portugal’s probably gonna get the factory because lower wages and labour rights.

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      1 year ago

      If that was the main criteria Germany wouldn’t have gotten the first one and Portugal would have lots of competition in Eastern Europe.

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    1 year ago

    How has the factory in Berlin panned out? Has it turned into high quality jobs for locals? (I actually don’t know)

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    1 year ago

    Musk is an expert in grabbing subsidies, so I wonder if there are any involved

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    I have not idea if this is reliable, and I do despise Musk, but, considering that Portugal will soon start destroying mountains for lithium it would at least allow the country to benefit a bit from those lithium mines that by themselves won’t bring much.