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I don't know, without Brexit Tesla might have chosen Germany anyway. There are many good reasons that have already been cited why Germany makes sense, addition
by eloisant 7y ago
I don't know, without Brexit Tesla might have chosen Germany anyway.
There are many good reasons that have already been cited why Germany makes sense, additionally when you're building cars for a whole continent, for shipping reasons it makes sense to build a factory in the middle of it rather than an island on the side.
- Symbiote 7y agoBritain has excellent sea connections, several existing large car manufacturers take advantage of that. (Germany does too, with river transport.) I doubt the land transport makes a significant difference either -- a good rail network extends across the whole EU, and there is car manufacturing in Spain, Romania etc. I'm not going to pretend I'm in any way able to make a reasonable comparison, but companies like Ford and Nissan appear to have had no intention to move their UK manufacturing to Germany. Tesla certainly considered it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cites-brexit-as-germany-chosen-over-uk-for-european-plant-elon-musk https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/tesla-cit...