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Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by coldfire »

propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

ROI may be? the market size in Israel is not as big in other countries, so it makes sense to target bigger audience first. Also does Israel have any good local EV manufacturers that can give Tesla any competition?

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by erk__ »

TomMarius wrote: post #14
pfundstein wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: Ahh my bad, I jumped to the conclusion of this being a concentration camp reference. It was a bit of a stretch admittedly.

Due to my recent visit to the awesome Mercedes museum, I thought of it as car reference... Especially considering that we're speaking about cars...

Autostadt in Wolfsburg is also worth a visit though I am not sure if you can book a visit to the factory anymore.

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by _ea1k »

propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

It sounds likey they've been hiring in Israel. Maybe that will change soon.

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by propercoil »

xxpor wrote: post #30
propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

Isn't the issue in Israel that you must have a local importer and dealer?

No, but worst case you simply register a local company that will act as an importer (like anywhere else). This company will declare profits of 0 every year as all revenues will be shipped to Tesla U.S.

The issue is with Tesla, they still didn't make the move on us I guess. At least I have my Tesla shares though.

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by Traster »

propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

How are the temperatures in Israel? I could imagine the summers get too hot for Tesla to guarantee battery performance?

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by propercoil »

coldfire wrote: post #31
propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

ROI may be? the market size in Israel is not as big in other countries, so it makes sense to target bigger audience first. Also does Israel have any good local EV manufacturers that can give Tesla any competition?

No competition for Tesla at all, only e-tron is selling here a bit and I think the model 3 and Y will crush it here. In terms of market size, well they have them in Jordan next to us which have the same population size and they don't have half the country working in the tech space as our GDP per capita is way higher.

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by gerbal »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #29
radicalbyte wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talent. It's why you see clustering of industries.

Except that most automotive talent is clustered in the south of Germany (greater Stuttgart and greater Munich), not in Berlin. If you do a quick job search, those places have the most jobs in Auto and also the highest wages.

Berlin has a very large tech industry, a lower cost of living, and lower wages.

Re: Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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Post by propercoil »

Traster wrote: post #36
propercoil wrote: post #24

Good strategy from Treelon overall. You'll have Tesla producing cars and employing thousands of workers in the U.S, China & Germany so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's. This will produce pressure on Europe to ease for instance the AI regulations and basically removed Customs tax from many other countries because Tesla can send the cars from three different locations. I just don't un…

How are the temperatures in Israel? I could imagine the summers get too hot for Tesla to guarantee battery performance?

Way colder than in Nevada. And also they already have them in Jordan next to us so that's not the culprit.
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