Tesla could get state subsidies in its plan to set up a gigafactory in Germany, the country's economy minister told a weekly newspaper.
"In my conversations with (Tesla CEO) Elon Musk I have always made clear that there are no privileges but also no discrimination," Peter Altmaier told Welt am Sonntag in an interview.
German auto sales are collapsing. They desperately need something to help their manufacturing so, yeah, they are going to bend over backwards for Tesla to export to the rest of Europe.