German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he supports the planned expansion of the only European plant of US electric car manufacturer Tesla, whose power lines at its plant in Grünheide near Berlin were recently attacked. He hopes that Tesla will develop just as well in Brandenburg as Ford has in Cologne, where the US carmaker has had a plant for almost 100 years, Scholz told Thursday’s edition of the Märkische Allgemeine newspaper. “That’s why I’m in favour of further expanding the plant.” Tesla wants to double its planned production of 500,000 cars per year, compared to the current projected fi…