Tesla's gigafactory in Europe
Tesla's gigafactory in Germany.
  • A power outage halted production at Tesla's gigafactory in Germany. 
  • Workers were sent home from the plant near Berlin, the company told German newspaper Bild. 
  • Elon Musk hit out the far-left militant group that claimed responsibility for the electricity pylon fire.

Elon Musk took aim at a militant group that claimed responsibility for a fire which halted production at Tesla's German factory on Tuesday.

The far-left "Volcano Group" set fire to an electricity pylon near the plant that caused a power cut, they said in a letter posted on website kontrapolis.info.