Tesla to resume clearing forest for German car factory

Tesla has overcome a legal roadblock standing in the way of Elon Musk’s plan to build an electric car factory in Germany.

A Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday ruled that Tesla can resume cutting down trees at a forest site in the small town of Gruenheide to make way for its first assembly plant in Europe. That puts the US carmaker on track to start construction before the start of a crucial breeding period for local wildlife in March.