Power is restored at the Tesla gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, after an arson attack by a far-left activist group that claimed responsibility for sabotage at the plant.
Power is restored earlier than expected at the Tesla gigafactory near Berlin after a week-long outage caused by arson, the factory's chief said Monday. A far-left activist group called Vulkangruppe, translated as the Volcano Group, had claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a nearby electricity pylon that knocked out the factory's power on March 5. "Lights ON!" said Andre Theirig, senior director of manufacturing at Giga Berlin, in a LinkedIn post Monday.
It will certainly take some time before we have fully resumed production, but the most important step has been taken! Power ON!" Theirig said. "Many thanks to E.DIS for the quick recommissioning and to all those involved and especially to our employees for their support over the last few days," he added. Tesla said earlier on Monday that production would gradually resume at the factory, which employs around 12,500 staff, after the power came back on.
The company had said last week it expected the outage to last at least until March 15. Joerg Steinbach, the economy minister in Brandenburg, said E.dis employees had been working in a three-shift mode to ensure electricity could flow as soon as possible. The outage prevented Tesla from meeting its production goal of around 1,000 cars per day, with the plant head saying the disruption would cost hundreds of millions of euros in damages.
We sabotaged Tesla," the Agua De Pau letter stated, per Reuters. The letter described the attack as a gift for International Women's Day on March 8. "Tesla consumes earth, resources, people, workers, and in return spits out 6,000 SUVs, killer cars and monster trucks each week," it stated. Musk ripped the arson attack in several posts on X last week.
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