-- U.S electric car manufacturer Tesla wants to cut around 400 jobs at its Brandenburg factory in Germany by means of a volunteer program to avoid redundancies, German newspaper Tagesspiegel reports.

-- The news follows Chief Executive Elon Musk's statement last week that 10% of Tesla's 140,000 employees worldwide would be laid off, according to Tagesspiegel.

-- Tesla didn't immediately respond to request for comment.


Full story (in German): https://shorturl.at/aek59


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