When Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk was last year asked whether the factory the company was constructing in Germany would deplete the area’s water supply, he broke out in bellowing laughter and called the notion “completely wrong.”
Six months later, water is one of the primary reasons the plant is still not producing vehicles.
While Musk in August last year pointed to water “everywhere” around Berlin, the region is experiencing falling groundwater levels and prolonged droughts due to climate change. That has sparked a legal challenge that is next week to go to court and an acknowledgment from local authorities that
By Victoria Waldersee BERLIN (Reuters) - Tesla may lose the water supply contract for its long-delayed German plant if environmental groups win a cour.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk visits the German plant. He may have to find a new home for the site’s sand lizards.
Snakes and lizards are complicating construction of a
Tesla assembly plant in Germany that already is reportedly at least six months behind schedule.
Two environmental groups have asked a court to make Tesla relocate a population of endangered 10-inch sand lizards that live on the site as well as some 30-inch adders that prey on the lizards and are considered a threatened species. The same groups already have successfully reduced the number of trees Tesla can cut down for the $7 billion plant.