A network of production hubs proposed by billionaire Elon Musk as a way to supercharge Russia’s electric vehicle industry have fallen flat with one local politician, who said he would pull the plug on any possible partnership.
Anton Alikhanov, the governor of the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic coast, said that the American entrepreneur had little to offer the world’s largest country. Addressing the proposals, the politician argued that “we already produce electric cars and electric buses. What more genius does he have?”
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