Tesla Berlin gigafactory to take week-long nap after suspected arson

Tesla's Berlin gigafactory, the company's only production plant in Europe, is still offline following a suspected arson attack days ago, and may remain so for another week. E.DIS, the German utility company whose equipment was damaged in the alleged arson attack by left-wing activists intent on disrupting expansion of Tesla's …

[rgjnk]

Typical Elon argument

Taking the gaslighting environmental angle, when the argument in Germany seems to boil down to his factory being horribly polluting because ignoring the rules is easier.

What'll be really fun to find out is whether they'd do the proper thing of scrapping stuff that got caught part way through some production stages, or whether they'll maintain usual standards & some cars will roll out with even worse paint than usual...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Typical Elon argument

So scrapping product with cosmetic defects is eco-friendy?

Customers should be proud to have flawed paint jobs as a sign of saving the environment, rather like refusing shopping bags

[Rikki Tikki]

Re: Typical Elon argument

So, because Elon Musk made a tendentious comment, you are implying that the actions of an extremist group in destroying property (and affecting thousands of residents of the area in the process) are quite acceptable?

[Dave314159ggggdffsdds]

Re: Typical Elon argument

He didn't imply anything of the sort. That's a desperate reach even for a Musk-sniffing fanboy trying to pretend his evil, bloated, billionaire crush isn't once again talking complete bollocks to avoid the real issue.

The truly pathetic part is that the more you debase yourself, the harder Musk laughs at you.

[Rikki Tikki]

Re: Typical Elon argument

I didn't see any criticism of the actions of the Volcano Group - so, by omission (and levelling the criticism at Musk) rgjnk was condoning their actions.

Elon Musk may not be a nice person, and his comment may have been dumb, but that doesn't mean it's OK to go destroying his or the power company's property.

And no, I am not a "fanboy", desperate or otherwise.

[doublelayer]

Re: Typical Elon argument

You can't use that logic. Just because a comment doesn't criticize something doesn't mean that the writer supports that. If that were the case, you have, by omission, announced support for murdering anyone on the planet, simply because you didn't specifically say you opposed doing so.

The comment to which you replied was about two things: the comparison of pollution output from a factory and the actions to recover from the damage caused. While the former is negative toward Tesla, it doesn't say anything at all about the arson being justified. Nor does stating a negative opinion imply that. Someone can say that they don't like Tesla and still have an even larger problem and greater opposition to arson. There are clearly a large group of people who think Tesla's factory is causing pollution problems, hence many protesters who didn't burn it down, but that doesn't mean they all looked on as the sabotage occurred, totally supporting it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop burning down the Tesla factory!

That’s the cars job.

[Jedit]

Re: Stop burning down the Tesla factory!

Who's to say it wasn't the cars? Maybe one of these left wing environmental protesters took one for a test drive, and... [see icon]

[herman]

Dum dum doobee dum

Hope Tesla sues these dum-dums out of existence.