Elon Musk doubles down on his German plans
The plant opened in Germany, in its first year of life, has already reached the capacity to produce 500,000 cars a year, but Tesla's goal is to reach one million
While the German government is becoming more tepid hour after hour towards electric mobility , Tesla, the EV car par excellence, is once again challenging the Teutonic bureaucracy that Elon Musk has complained about on several occasions and the German environmentalists (who feared that the gigafactory would drain the local aquifer, determining with their causes the postponement on several occasions of the end of the works on the plant, the first of the Texan company in Europe), presenting to the Office for the Environment of the Land of Brandenburg the formal request to expand the gigafactory in Grünheide. In short, the construction sites on the outskirts of Berlin will not close so quickly…
WHAT TESLA WANTS TO DO IN GERMANY
The watchword is to increase the rate of fire, that is, produce, produce and produce. Up until a few months ago, Musk defined the gigafactory built in Germany as "a furnace that burns money" and the tycoon's intent to make it a twin plant to the Chinese one is clear, capable of churning out a Model Y every two and a half hours (numbers impressive although they clash with the fact that over 120,000 are recalled in a hurry because a fixing bolt to the steering column would be missing ).
LESS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND MORE JOBS
The plant opened in Germany, in its first year of life, has already reached a potential capacity of producing 500,000 cars a year, but Tesla's goal is to reach 1 million, while satisfying the needs of environmentalists who oppose the gigafactory, including the environmental impact of the activities, starting with the consumption of water, often the subject of protests by citizens' associations and non-profit organizations. If it reaches a production of 1 million vehicles a year, note Quattroruote , the German plant will exceed the volumes of large European factories that have gone down in the history of the automotive sector such as Wolfsburg or Mirafiori.
The application for the next expansion of the #Tesla factory in #Gruenheide arrived yesterday at the #Brandenburg State Environmental Protection Agency.
One million cars will be produced. More water is not needed! @Teslarati @teslamag https://t.co/mTz5xaVVFD
— Giga Berlin / Gigafactory 4 (@gigafactory_4) March 16, 2023
Once the various authorizations have been obtained, the expansion will take place within the current perimeter occupied by the factory and should lead to an increase in the workforce from the current 10,000 employees to the 12,000 indicated by Tesla right from the start of the Grünheide project . Employment is undoubtedly the currency that Musk intends to spend in dialogue with the various administrations affected by the project. A currency that has acquired even more value in the latter period, if we consider that Ford will lay off over 3200 employees throughout the Old Continent, many of whom are located in Germany.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tesla-raddoppio-gigafactory-germania/ on Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:43:14 +0000.