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Tesla hit in Germany after car-rental company cancels Model 3 order

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Stefan Moeller charges a Tesla Model X in Leipzig. (Krisztian Bocsi\/Bloomberg)
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CHRISTOPH RAUWALD
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August 16, 2019 02:14 PM

Stefan Moeller began this year with an ambitious target: to make his car-rental company Nextmove the biggest Tesla customer in Germany by adding 100 Model 3s to its fleet. He likened the electric car’s arrival on Europe’s shores to a tsunami washing over a region that’s been slow to embrace battery-powered autos.

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