Elon Musk to open Tesla R&D plant in Greece

Billionaire entrepreneur's electric car company to set up engineering facility in Athens

Elon Musk may have plans to colonise Mars but back on planet Earth he is extending his reach to Athens, by opening an engineering facility called Tesla Greece.

Musk's electric car business is an unsung success story for the Greek diaspora, with three of Tesla's top designers boasting degrees from the National Technical University of Athens. Tesla's plans for the country have such "game-changing potential" that the head of the Hellenic Entrepreneurs' Association, Vasilis Apostolopoulos, has pledged to hand over his own industrial plant for free as a testing ground for new products.