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Portugal favourite for Tesla “Gigafactory” (www.theportugalnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NorskSud to c/europe@feddit.de

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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 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

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

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Mixed story basically.

[–] NorskSud 1 points 1 year ago

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/

[–] theredditpunk@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Portugal's probably gonna get the factory because lower wages and labour rights.

[–] NorskSud 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] albert180@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Musk is an expert in grabbing subsidies, so I wonder if there are any involved

[–] NorskSud 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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