Musk's giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany

When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative fà¼r Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer - who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla's European production hub - wrote to the state premier to complain. "How can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?" she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Grà¼nheide. Hoyer said that in Woidke's "disappointing, but predictable" answer, he denied the charge. "He said he didn't know…