ELON MUSK VISITS A TESLA PLANT NEAR BERLIN AS PRODUCTION RESUMES AFTER A SUSPECTED ARSON ATTACK

Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electric car maker’s first European plant on Wednesday as production resumed at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply.

Musk was expected at a “team huddle” with employees at the plant in the Gruenheide municipality, employee council chief Michaela Schmitz told regional broadcaster RBB’s Info radio channel. Reporters at the scene could see him arriving from a distance and he turned their way, shouting “Deutschland rocks” or “Germany rocks.”

Production at Tesla’s plant in Gruenheide came to a standstill on Tuesday last week. Tens of thousands of residents, nearby hospitals, nursing homes and a big logistics center for a German grocery chain were also initially affected.