Elon Musk's Tesla company impressed a lot of business sectors in terms of its success. However, not all things look good for the electric car manufacturer, especially in the subject of tree logging.
In its soon-to-be built Tesla Gigafactory Berlin, the German court has already ruled out its initial temporary ban for the company's clearing of forest land.
German court approves Tesla's tree logging
Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered a range of questions relating to SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference.
At least 80 acres of trees set to be destroyed, leaving numbers of animal occupants without a home. That will be the expected outcome of the planned Tesla Gigafactory Berlin in Germany.
Before, the court stops the logging of trees around the area over issues of environmental imbalance. Reuters reported at the time, that 92 acres of land would be destroyed to give space for the factory.
It was first approved, but then, environmental groups stepped in to stop the operation.
On, Thursday, Dec. 10, Electrek reported that the car company is now given a green light to continue the cutting of trees. An extra acres will be included on the operation, since they already started the process.
In defense of German court, Tesla was already seen made efforts to protect the creatures that will be affected by the logging. This was the reason why the court thinks it would be okay for them to cut the trees.
How Tesla Model Y will be made?
In this aerial view a stretch of forest that will make way for the newly-announced Tesla Gigafactory stands at Freienbrink on November 14, 2019 in Gruenheide, Germany. Elon Musk, CEO of U.S. electric automaker Tesla, announced two days ago that Tesla will build a European Gigafactory outside Berlin at Gruenheide, not far from the BER Willy Brandt Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The factory would be Tesla's fourth and is to produce car batteries, parts and the Model 3 and Model Y cars.
There were already two Gigafactories under Tesla company, one in United States and in China. As expected, this is a very important project since Berlin's Gigafactory is expected to make the Tesla Model Y, first in Europe.
The automaker plans to start its production in July 2021.
How ironic, Elon?
Tesla CEO Musk has no statement regarding the environmental issue of the foundation of the factory.
However, it was quite ironic with the fact that Elon, once promised in 2019, to plant at least one million trees for Youtubers Mr. Beast and Marques Brownlee's green project.
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