Media weightloss
Tesla-Chef Musk and “Frontal21” deliver slugfest
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, at the ceremony of the Axel Springer Award. Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa Central image/dpa-pool/dpa
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In Brandenburg, soon the drinking water? This is a “Frontal21”-report on the new work of Tesla in green Heath suggests. Prelude to a slugfest by the editorial Board with the Tesla boss Elon Musk.
In the debate about the construction of the Tesla factory in Grünheide, near Berlin, of the dispute between the TV magazine “Frontal21” and the group CEO Elon Musk went into a new round.
According to a media vilification of Musk via Twitter against the ZDF-Magazin “Frontal 21” on Wednesday called on the editors of the Top managers on Thursday to face an Interview.
In case it comes to the question of how much water is consumed, the new plant for the construction of electric cars and the associated batteries. In the Musk criticized the contribution of the magazine of the chief of the water Association Strausberg-Erkner, André bähler will had said, the water supply will be sacrificed “on the gift table economic policy”.
The company denies that it’ll come by the Tesla production to limitations in drinking-water, and refers to the opinions of experts. Also, Musk personally the best possible water-riding problems. “Basically, we are not in a very dry Region. Trees would not grow if there is no water,” said Musk. “I mean, we’re here in the desert.”
Tesla estimates the factory at full capacity of 500,000 vehicles a maximum water consumption of 1.4 million cubic meters per year. The value has been reduced by the use of water-saving measures by 30 percent. This is the estimated maximum demand under the most unfavorable conditions, in normal operation, the consumption should be much lower.
Prior to the Interview request to Musk via Twitter, Musk had tweeted on Wednesday evening: “”Wow, shame on ZDF Info!” (English: Shame on you, ZDF Info!)”. He was referring to a post in the Blog “Tesmanian”, in which an allegedly erroneous reporting by the ZDF has been criticized.
