Activists build treehouses to protest Tesla’s plans to expand its plant near Berlin
Associated PressBERLIN — Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric carmaker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks. Between 80 and 100 activists have been camping in the forest since early Thursday, according to an initiative called “Stop Tesla.” They put up tents and built treehouses, some of them several meters above the ground — a tactic used in previous German environmental protests. Tesla opened the factory in Gruenheide, just outside Berlin, in March 2022 — launching a challenge to German automakers on their home turf. In a nonbinding vote in mid-February, residents of the Gruenheide municipality rejected Tesla’s plans, which still need approval by local authorities.
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