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Herbert dease, chief executive, said he may find that Germany is a better place to make electric cars than California, the US, according to eurocar news. It's worth mentioning that Herbert dease's friendliness to Elon, Tesla's chief executive, is increasing. "Tesla may be looking for the environment and infrastructure to make high-quality cars, and Germany may have more possibilities than the west coast of the United States in this regard," Herbert dis told analysts and investors on Monday in a conference call Elon Musk announced last week that Tesla will build a car and factory on the outskirts of Berlin, as well as an engineering and design center in the city. The Berlin plant will be Tesla's second assembly plant outside the U.S. (another in Shanghai, China), and the company's large plant in Fremont, California, has no plans to relocate. Preparations for the production of Tesla Model y crossover are underway and will be put into production next summer. Tesla has yet to say where it will build a new electric pickup truck, which Elon Musk, 48, plans to launch in Los Angeles later this week. Earlier media reports said that there appeared to be a budding friendship between VW and Tesla's two chief executives. On October 24 local time, at the launch ceremony of VW's new hatchback, Volkswagen CEO Herbert dease refuted the view that Tesla was in trouble because of its small size. "Tesla is not a marginal company," he told reporters. Model 3 is a model put into mass production, and Tesla is one of the world's largest manufacturers of electric vehicle batteries. We have a lot of respect for Tesla and a lot of respect for this competitor. "