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November 27, 2020

Elon Musk may have met his match in the German unions

A conflict with the unions could be a stumbling block for Musk in his mission to make 500,000 electric vehicles a year in his Berlin gigafactory.


At 9:45am on November 5th, Elon Musk swooped into BER airport on his private jet – unannounced, in the middle of Germany’s national lockdown.

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Elon Musk. Credit: NASAKennedy
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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