>The US electric car manufacturer Tesla wants to raise its first factory in Europe. As soon as the company sells more than 160,000 vehicles on the continent, this makes sense, said CEO Elon Musk “Automotive News” according to the report of Thursday. “My ambitions for Europe are that we sell a comparable number of cars in Europe as in the US.” This year, Tesla wants to double its sales after around 24,000 cars were sold worldwide in 2013. Three-quarters of the turnover will be generated in the USA, the rest in Europe. Research center in the UK A research and development center in the UK should be opened in 2015 or 2016 at the latest, said Musk. Also the plant in the Netherlands, where the batteries for the Tesla vehicles imported from the USA will be reinstalled, should be expanded.< Source: http://diepresse.com/.../Tesla-plant-ElektroautoFactory-in-Europe?