Why Sweden is primed to become home of Tesla’s European factory

I can't see Sweden being chosen by Tesla, I still believe it makes more sense to put it close to their existing assembly plant in Holland, basically to keep logistics easy. Holland has the biggest and best ports of Europe to boot and they are sort of in the middle of Europe.

Sweeden YES?
LOL.
I don't think so. High taxes, high social. Unions. Etc.
And lately the things Trump "mentioned".

Here Trump is the weighing factor

What about PORTUGAL?

Or The Netherlands?
Good road and train-infrastructure, financial benefits for foreign companies, good taxhaven, fine sea- and airports, bussiness axes and relaxing cities for after work.

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Trump smump It makes sense to manufacture closer to the market. Profits will make Tesla stronger and that is good for stockholders and workers long range best interests. As deliveries grow here it would likely to increase manufacturing here too. Much different than moving production out of country and importing finished goods back.

Or The Netherlands?
Good road and train-infrastructure, financial benefits for foreign companies, good tax haven, fine sea- and airports, business ?axes? and relaxing cities for after work.

Not to mention lots of hookers and free beer at the Heineken or Amstel breweries.

Why not Georgia - Qualified labor price 500 USD per month, crossroad of Europe and Asia, Freetrade with all the world, N9 in easy to do bussiness state

"Not to mention lots of hookers and free beer at the Heineken or Amstel breweries".

You forgot the Arts and the sky-high brainstorms. You know how the water in the canals is called by the Amsterdam people? Amstel Beer!
So Tesla will be comfortable in The technic-innovating Netherlands.

By the way I am a full-blood Amsterdammer and lived at 300 meters away from Heineken. Never went there to take a beer. But Belgium..... With a Tesla you are there within one and haf hour. Return likewise. So you have workmentality and two different options in fun in one package.

Trump smump It makes sense to manufacture closer to the market. Profits will make Tesla stronger and that is good for stockholders and workers long range best interests. As deliveries grow here it would likely to increase manufacturing here too. Much different than moving production out of country and importing finished goods back.

The products made outside the American market are for those foreign markets. Those products are cheaper made, while the greater profits stream to the USA. That is why production in The Netherlands is in the interest of Mr Trump. Furthermore I do not think Elon would be stupid to clash heads with Trump, who is as stubborn as a bull with only horns in his head.

Why not Georgia - Qualified labor price 500 USD per month, crossroad of Europe and Asia, Freetrade with all the world, N9 in easy to do bussiness state

But first Sandra Roelofs as President; not her husband. Then things will change for the better in Georgia

Remember that as Tesla continues to expand they are creating factories on the GIGA scale. If they are going to build a factory for Europe I would think it would be a giga-factory not a traditional car plant. I imagine it will include at least 50GWh of batteries along with vehicles possibly even storage.

They could just build an assembly plant but by 2025 they will be maxing out Fremont and Sparks (and probably one or two other USA giga-factory) just for USA production of S, ≡, X, Y, New Roadster and maybe even a Semi. That would keep Trump happy too while the European factory can crank out the million cars, trucks and SUVs for Europe.

Will need to wait and see. Tax exemptions/Government subsidies and Logistics might be the crucial factors Tesla will consider.
Election results in Germany and France over the next few months may change the status quo adversely affecting the Euro Zone.
Tesla will be prudent enough to wait until the election results are out.

Gigafactories in Asia will most likely be built both in China and India.

Of course I was joking. The geographical place of Finland? Somehow you do have a point. Russia is next door and what will happen if Putin wants to get more active and more close to the borders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland? Don't forget Finland lies strategic for the North route to Europe. The other states have (small) harbours. Sint Petersburg is not very convenient. And the Barents Sea is 68 degrees North. Just a bit too cold for the whole year to be open. So what will happen to a plant in Finland?
Tesla will be ordered to build rockets running/ flying on wind- and solar energy, ha , ha! Then you can forget about the model 3 or any other s3xy model.

OMG !! Dude you are SO brainwashed by BBC/CNN/NATO propaganda. Clearly you believe all the insane fictional crap that the Western media feeds you about Russia every day and you have never stopped once to consider the actual facts. One fact is that the NATO military budget is 10 x the $66BILLION military budget of the Russian Federation.Trump just increased the US military budget by 10% $54BILLION !
The EU and US carried out a coup in Kiev then Joe Biden launched the Ukrainian civil war and the regime installed in Kiev is crawling with literal Neo-Nazis. No wonder those dogs in Lithuania and Latvia love the Kiev regime. Do you realise the official WWII memorial ceremonies in Latvia and Lithuania are 100% on the Nazi side ? Do you expect the people of Crimea to accept the idea of living under a Western installed Kiev fascist coup regime ? So they had a democratic referendum and returned Crimea to their Mother country Russia. There was no Ukrainian language or culture in Crimea before 1957. During WWII while you Dutch were drinking tea with Nazis the Soviet Russian people of Crimea fought and died in their hundreds of thousands against the Third Reich. They have a message for you Do you see anyone in Iraq or Libya singing the British or American anthems ?

Will need to wait and see. Tax exemptions/Government subsidies and Logistics might be the crucial factors Tesla will consider.
Election results in Germany and France over the next few months may change the status quo adversely affecting the Euro Zone.
Tesla will be prudent enough to wait until the election results are out.

Gigafactories in Asia will most likely be built both in China and India.

When tax exemptions, Government subsidies and Logistics are involved in the choiche it is piece of cake. The Netherlands offer the best of those worlds combined. The only point is where to build the GIGA-factory. Could only be built in the North, in the Provinces Friesland and Groningen. And I am fairly sure the Government will provide an extra seaport and even more transportlinks only and especially for Tesla.

OMG !! Dude you are SO brainwashed by BBC/CNN/NATO propaganda. Clearly you believe all the insane fictional crap that the Western media feeds you about Russia every day and you have never stopped once to consider the actual facts. One fact is that the NATO military budget is 10 x the $66BILLION military budget of the Russian Federation.Trump just increased the US military budget by 10% $54BILLION !
The EU and US carried out a coup in Kiev then Joe Biden launched the Ukrainian civil war and the regime installed in Kiev is crawling with literal Neo-Nazis. No wonder those dogs in Lithuania and Latvia love the Kiev regime. Do you realise the official WWII memorial ceremonies in Latvia and Lithuania are 100% on the Nazi side ? Do you expect the people of Crimea to accept the idea of living under a Western installed Kiev fascist coup regime ? So they had a democratic referendum and returned Crimea to their Mother country Russia. There was no Ukrainian language or culture in Crimea before 1957. During WWII while you Dutch were drinking tea with Nazis the Soviet Russian people of Crimea fought and died in their hundreds of thousands against the Third Reich. They have a message for you Do you see anyone in Iraq or Libya singing the British or American anthems ?

I think you took my post way too serious. I wonder if anybody in the world is without a brainwash? Either with a wash of the West or with the East. But my quess is you watch RT. I have satellite TV and most of the times I watch Reuters, Euronews, BBC, Al Jazeera, France24, Chinese CCTV, CCTV4, PCNE, Japanese NHK World TV, and yes as well RT. I do not look at CNN or any other American News channel.
You do like (internet-) games, hey?

But I do wonder when Nato- and Russian tanks on solar energy will fire at eachother, all made by the same environment friendly company ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha.
One thing I do know for sure though........I will never drive my Tesla into Russia. They drive like crazy there, I saw in clips of dashboardcams on Youtube..................................or is YouTube, according to you, a brainwash and doctrine invention of the CIA as Telegram is an invention of the KGB, ha, ha, ha,ha.

One other thing I wonder....Why are are you living in the UK?

OMG !! Dude you are SO brainwashed by BBC/CNN/NATO propaganda. Clearly you believe all the insane fictional crap that the Western media feeds you about Russia every day and you have never stopped once to consider the actual facts. One fact is that the NATO military budget is 10 x the $66BILLION military budget of the Russian Federation.Trump just increased the US military budget by 10% $54BILLION !
The EU and US carried out a coup in Kiev then Joe Biden launched the Ukrainian civil war and the regime installed in Kiev is crawling with literal Neo-Nazis. No wonder those dogs in Lithuania and Latvia love the Kiev regime. Do you realise the official WWII memorial ceremonies in Latvia and Lithuania are 100% on the Nazi side ? Do you expect the people of Crimea to accept the idea of living under a Western installed Kiev fascist coup regime ? So they had a democratic referendum and returned Crimea to their Mother country Russia. There was no Ukrainian language or culture in Crimea before 1957. During WWII while you Dutch were drinking tea with Nazis the Soviet Russian people of Crimea fought and died in their hundreds of thousands against the Third Reich. They have a message for you Do you see anyone in Iraq or Libya singing the British or American anthems ?

Can you describe the terms Nazi and fascists? Cause as how I look at it Russians use those words in far broader sence as it is actually meant. Therefore not applicable in every situation. Just like how the Americans give those terms a far broader meaning.
With the revolution in Ukraine a few years ago you partly are right. There were fractions of Neo-Nazi's fighting, but the most Ukrains were not. So not all and certainly not the most of the regime. Even the RT said that in the beginning. RT changed the use of terms for the people who demonstrated into Neo-Nazi's and fascists when Janoekovitsj came to Russia and when separatists arose more and more in East-Ukraine. RT used the words more and more for denigrating ALL the politicians who were not at the side of Russia. Yes some politicians were neo-nazi's and fascists, but certainly not ALL! But now they do not have any significant power in government. Only some influence in the extreme South-West of the country, next to Russia loving Moldova.
But still I would not drive my Tesla in(to) Russia. More percentage of people in Russia then in other countries are retarded in traffic, super drunk, not at all paying any attention to situations and traffic rules and drive way too fast in winterconditions. Even the set of traffic rules are not complete.
Never ever I am going to buy a Tesla in Russia, not even a Materikin. Both and all other Russian carbrands are your coffin. So even a Tesla.

In my opinion Finland would be best and perfect place for Tesla´s European factory for several reasons mentioned below:

-Finland has lots of experience and long history in car manufacturing (factory production started in 1968). Valmet Automotive in city of Uusikaupunki has produced several different cars and is specialized high end cars and especially electric cars. It has been ranked 3rd most best quality car factory in Europe and has been produced cars like Porsche Cayman and Boxer. Recent years it has produced 100 000 Mercedes Benz A class. It has also produced Fisker Karma hybrids between 2008-2012. There has been partnerships with also with BMW, Lamborghini, Mini, Renault and Bentley etc. (source: Wikipedia)

-Finland has very good infrastructure, good logistics to Europe, stable political situation, geopolitically one of the safest location on earth and thanks to recent changes to company taxing policy, it is very competitive choice what comes to taxing. Did i mention Finland company Wärtsilä is world leading in production of low emissions LNG engines for cargo and cruice ships.

For example city of Vaasa in the west coast of Finland. It has North Europes most important cluster of energy technology companies and they share same goal as Tesla do..to hasten the world transportation towards sustainable energy. Vaasa has Europes biggest Lithium deposit very near. Gigafactory, which produce mainly Lithium batteries, do need [lots of] Lithium, right.
Also Finland has lots of highly educated people (and also lots of engineers left unemployed when Nokia was sold to Microsoft) Finnish labour is rated as second most desirable in the world (Source:World Economic Forum, WEF)
Also there is highly advanced telecommunications infra, like Google datacenter (among several other datacenters), highspeed and most kyber-secure submarine datacable to central Europe, and likely forthcoming Northeast passage cable connecting Eupore and Asia. Also Finland has leading developent of world fastest wireless 5G technology (which would be crucial for mass adoption for self driving cars)

For these, and several other reasons, Finland would be perfect choice for centralized production for highly advanced and envionmentally friendly orinted company like Tesla.

Overall, Finland is the second most great country in the world :)

In my opinion Finland would be best and perfect place for Tesla´s European factory for several reasons mentioned below:

-Finland has lots of experience and long history in car manufacturing (factory production started in 1968). Valmet Automotive in city of Uusikaupunki has produced several different cars and is specialized high end cars and especially electric cars. It has been ranked 3rd most best quality car factory in Europe and has been produced cars like Porsche Cayman and Boxer. Recent years it has produced 100 000 Mercedes Benz A class. It has also produced Fisker Karma hybrids between 2008-2012. There has been partnerships with also with BMW, Lamborghini, Mini, Renault and Bentley etc. (source: Wikipedia)

-Finland has very good infrastructure, good logistics to Europe, stable political situation, geopolitically one of the safest location on earth and thanks to recent changes to company taxing policy, it is very competitive choice what comes to taxing. Did i mention Finland company Wärtsilä is world leading in production of low emissions LNG engines for cargo and cruice ships.

For example city of Vaasa in the west coast of Finland. It has North Europes most important cluster of energy technology companies and they share same goal as Tesla do..to hasten the world transportation towards sustainable energy. Vaasa has Europes biggest Lithium deposit very near. Gigafactory, which produce mainly Lithium batteries, do need [lots of] Lithium, right.
Also Finland has lots of highly educated people (and also lots of engineers left unemployed when Nokia was sold to Microsoft) Finnish labour is rated as second most desirable in the world (Source:World Economic Forum, WEF)
Also there is highly advanced telecommunications infra, like Google datacenter (among several other datacenters), highspeed and most kyber-secure submarine datacable to central Europe, and likely forthcoming Northeast passage cable connecting Eupore and Asia. Also Finland has leading developent of world fastest wireless 5G technology (which would be crucial for mass adoption for self driving cars)

For these, and several other reasons, Finland would be perfect choice for centralized production for highly advanced and envionmentally friendly orinted company like Tesla.

Overall, Finland is the second most great country in the world :)

Finland, nice country. But next to Russia. So not so secure, with the nukes pointed to The West.

Well, in that highly unlike scenario someone decide to start using nukes, at that point it really does not matter which country this factory will be built in.

Finland (like Sweden) is neutral country, and i have a gut feeling if such doomsday scenario will ever happen, central/western Europe would most likely be in highest riskzone (in Europe). Anyway, if nukes would be ever used again, or if there´s some other serious act of war, it would trigger something we may call WW3, and in such scenario big factories most likely will be converted to produce weapons and war machines. IE. Tesla Gigafactory will be forced to produce "2170" mininukes or something.
It´s hard to imagine Russia would concider small Finland as a threat to them in any way. What they are worried about is NATO.

Well, in that highly unlike scenario someone decide to start using nukes, at that point it really does not matter which country this factory will be built in.

Finland (like Sweden) is neutral country, and i have a gut feeling if such doomsday scenario will ever happen, central/western Europe would most likely be in highest riskzone (in Europe). Anyway, if nukes would be ever used again, or if there´s some other serious act of war, it would trigger something we may call WW3, and in such scenario big factories most likely will be converted to produce weapons and war machines. IE. Tesla Gigafactory will be forced to produce "2170" mininukes or something.
It´s hard to imagine Russia would concider small Finland as a threat to them in any way. What they are worried about is NATO.

Of course I was joking. The geographical place of Finland? Somehow you do have a point. Russia is next door and what will happen if Putin wants to get more active and more close to the borders of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland? Don't forget Finland lies strategic for the North route to Europe. The other states have (small) harbours. Sint Petersburg is not very convenient. And the Barents Sea is 68 degrees North. Just a bit too cold for the whole year to be open. So what will happen to a plant in Finland?
Tesla will be ordered to build rockets running/ flying on wind- and solar energy, ha , ha! Then you can forget about the model 3 or any other s3xy model.