Environmental activists are concerned by Tesla's plan to chop down trees to clear land for its new Gigafactory.
A German court said it would consider an appeal from local activists opposed to the forest clearance.
The freight traffic center in the Gruenheide region east of Berlin. Tesla plans to build its new European Gigafactory in a huge forest nearby.has been ordered by a German court to temporarily halt preparations for its new European factory. The company does not yet have planning permission to build its new so-called Gigafactory, but the state environmental agency had given it a green light to clear 92 hectares of forest land.
The court ordered Tesla to pause the felling, which has already commenced, as it would have been completed in just three days, according to a report from German state-owned broadcasterThe court added that it would not discard the activist group's appeal against the cutting down of trees as "obviously hopeless from the outset," DW reported.
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