BERLIN, March 5 (Reuters) - Production at Tesla's car

factory near Berlin is not expected to resume before next week

after a suspected arson attack severed both power lines feeding

it, plant manager Andre Thierig said on Tuesday.

The outage, which would last until the plant's electricity

provider restored supply, would cost "in the high nine-digit

euro range", he added. Staff had been told to stay at home until

production could resume.

"We don't expect to be able resume production this week," he

said. "We hope to find out whether we can restart at the

beginning of next week."