{"id":5856,"date":"2019-08-25T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2019-08-25T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:59:10","slug":"tesla-scouting-sites-for-possible-factory-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5856","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Scouting Sites for Possible Factory in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Electric carmaker Tesla &lt;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TSLA (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TSLA?p=TSLA&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\">TSLA<\/a>> is scouting out locations for a possible factory in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany&#8217;s most populous state, daily Rheinische Post reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First inspections have taken place, the paper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla spokespeople in Europe were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a tweet in April that the company was &#8220;considering&#8221; building a factory in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Musk said Germany was a leading choice in Europe to build a Gigafactory, adding &#8220;the German-French border makes sense, near the Benelux countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NRW, Germany&#8217;s most populous state, shares borders with the Netherlands and Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla is also looking at the German state of Lower Saxony, which shares a border with the Netherlands, its Economy Minister Bernd Althusmann said earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Frances Kerry)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tesla-germany-hamburg-e1447340849510.jpg?fit=640%2C400\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tesla-germany-hamburg-e1447340849510.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tesla-germany-hamburg-e1447340849510-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tesla-germany-hamburg-e1447340849510-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/tesla-germany-hamburg-e1447340849510-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric carmaker Tesla <TSLA> is scouting out locations for a possible factory in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany&#8217;s most populous state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6470,5637,5877,5992,5670,2303,2203,4957,4059,5676,1397,814,868,5876],"tags":[1830,3255,1927,6284,4832,1318,1565,1216,6469,5260,463,707,1767,1907,1236,572,1631,888,571,1891,3988,3737,708,1929,412,764,6464,6468,3420,2467,1288,6465,6466,5104,6462,6463,1634,542,1691,1658,1916,6467],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-news","category-business-news","category-car-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-electric-vehicle-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-green-energy-news","category-international-news","category-stock-news","category-tesla","category-transportation-news","category-zero-emission-news","tag-auto","tag-automotive","tag-belgium","tag-benelux","tag-border","tag-building","tag-carmaker","tag-chief","tag-comment","tag-countries","tag-electric","tag-elon","tag-europe","tag-executive","tag-factory","tag-frankfurt","tag-french","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-gigafactory","tag-inspection","tag-lower","tag-musk","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-north","tag-nrw","tag-paper","tag-possible","tag-post","tag-reuters","tag-rheinische","tag-rhine","tag-saxony","tag-scouting","tag-sites","tag-state","tag-tesla","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-westphalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}