{"id":19445,"date":"2025-07-14T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/musks-giant-tesla-factory-casts-shadow-on-lives-in-a-quiet-corner-of-germany\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:37:35","slug":"musks-giant-tesla-factory-casts-shadow-on-lives-in-a-quiet-corner-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/musks-giant-tesla-factory-casts-shadow-on-lives-in-a-quiet-corner-of-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of carmaker\u2019s owner has soured sentiments in Gr\u00fcnheide, south-west of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisation<\/p>\n<p>When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer \u2013 who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla\u2019s European production hub \u2013 wrote to the state premier to complain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?\u201d she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Gr\u00fcnheide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/14\/musk-giant-tesla-factory-germany\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f07f24947c5a0d35bfff0c69dd9dce47e0e65961\/192_0_3764_3011\/master\/3764.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=938d33e0c67a935032789217b5b5be47\" title=\"Musk\u2019s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany\" \/>Politics of carmaker\u2019s owner has soured sentiments in Gr\u00fcnheide, south-west of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisation<br \/>\nWhen Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer \u2013 who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla\u2019s European production hub \u2013 wrote to the state premier to complain.<br \/>\n\u201cHow can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?\u201d she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Gr\u00fcnheide. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of carmaker\u2019s owner has soured sentiments in Gr\u00fcnheide, south-west of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisation When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer \u2013 who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla\u2019s European production hub &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/musks-giant-tesla-factory-casts-shadow-on-lives-in-a-quiet-corner-of-germany\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk\u2019s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}