World Business Report

Tesla's first European factory opens in Germany


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Tesla's first European production facility is officially open. Elon Musk was at the opening ceremony - alongside the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz - to see the first Model Y electric cars roll out of the so-called gigafactory. The Gruenheide plant outside Berlin has cost 5 billion euros - and it's had some bureaucratic hitches, as Joe Miller from the Financial Times explains.
Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has said that it's 'not logical' that Spain pays for all its electricity at a unit price dictated by the gas market when nearly half of its electricity actually comes from the renewable sector. To understand why that happens, we speak to Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at the European economic think-tank Breugel.
And we hear a special report from the BBC's Tamasin Ford about a young Ukrainian woman from Kyiv. Alexandra explains how she had to say goodbye to her parents at the packed Polish border, and is now suffering from survivor's guilt, living in the safety of Berlin.
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