Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, is one step closer to a factory in Germany, the country of origin of the major automakers Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW. Tesla has entered into an agreement for the purchase of a plot of land in the state of Brandenburg.

city Officials closed Friday reached an agreement with Tesla is for the sale of a plot of land of 300 acres in the small village of Grünheide, near Berlin, germany. Also, the electric car manufacturer licenses applied for, the German government on Saturday at our web site.

“We’ve got two new milestones were reached just prior to Christmas,” he writes, the economic minister of Brandenburg, Jörg Steinbach. “I am, therefore, optimistic that the next year we continued with this spectacular project.” The agreement has to be signed by the management of the Model.

The automaker took last month announced that for the fourth, so-called “gigafactory” of the company, to Germany’s will. The factory is home to around ten thousand people, and each year a half million cars to be produced.

in Germany, were sold last month, for the first time, the majority of electric cars in Europe. One highlight: this was always Russia. It will most likely not be in the one-time German automakers are investing high in the production of electric cars, with a lot of new models planned over the next two years.