German town votes against Tesla plans to expand ‘gigafactory’
by Kate Connolly in Berlin and Miranda Bryant in Stoc from Technology | The Guardian on (#6JSPT)
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The people of a small German town where Elon Musk has built a Tesla factory have thrown a spanner in the works by rejecting plans to expand the complex.
The majority of residents of Grunheide in Brandenburg, an hour's drive south-east of Berlin, voted against proposals to build new infrastructure intended to improve access to the site and allow easier transport of the finished vehicles, including a freight depot and warehouses.
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