Portugal favourite for Tesla “Gigafactory”

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-06-30/portugal-favourite-for-tesla-gigafactory/79077

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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darknavi@vlemmy.net · 4 pts · 3y (4 replies)

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

clifftiger@feddit.de · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Las thing i read was that they are struggling finding workers that ar willing to work on such "high quality" jobs. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tesla-vacancies-staff-shortage-berlin Tessla apparently is a shitty employer. Who would have guessed that.

24Vindustrialdildo@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 3y

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than work for an American company

NorskSud@lemmy.pt · 1 pts · 3y

good question, I googled a bit and apparently they're expanding: https://electrek.co/2023/03/16/tesla-applies-expand-gigafactory-berlin-1-million-vehicles-per-year/

poVoq@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 3y

Mixed story basically.

theredditpunk@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y

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.

kl3io@lemmy.pt · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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NorskSud@lemmy.pt · 1 pts · 3y

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

NorskSud@lemmy.pt · 1 pts · 3y

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.

albert180@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
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