Tesla Motors which
recently won the car of the year award opened an assembly plant in
Tilburg, Netherlands, and delivered the first Tesla Model S vehicles to
customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany.
The 18,900 square meter facility will not produce the Model S from scratch; instead, it will receive the vehicles for final assembly and send them on their way across the continent.
To mark the occasion, first buyers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany showed up at the opening to receive their cars.
The car company chose Tilburg because of is proximity to the port of Rotterdam, as well as the high quality and availability of transportation options there.
"This location is pivotal to Tesla's European operations, which are expanding rapidly over the coming months with openings of around 15 new stores and service centres," Bryan Batista, Tesla's EU sales director, said in a statement.
The question which obviously arises is what has Almere done to capture investments which create jobs like Tilburg seems to be able to do? So far, it seems, not much.
Almere-Digest
The 18,900 square meter facility will not produce the Model S from scratch; instead, it will receive the vehicles for final assembly and send them on their way across the continent.
To mark the occasion, first buyers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany showed up at the opening to receive their cars.
The car company chose Tilburg because of is proximity to the port of Rotterdam, as well as the high quality and availability of transportation options there.
"This location is pivotal to Tesla's European operations, which are expanding rapidly over the coming months with openings of around 15 new stores and service centres," Bryan Batista, Tesla's EU sales director, said in a statement.
The question which obviously arises is what has Almere done to capture investments which create jobs like Tilburg seems to be able to do? So far, it seems, not much.
Almere-Digest
