Tesla-Boss Elon Musk (49) assumes a quick construction of his Factory in Grünheide near Berlin out. Musk wrote on Twitter, translated accordingly, that “Giga Berlin” would be created at an unimaginable pace. And: “The prefabricated construction in Germany is extremely impressive.” In doing so, he replied to a post that asked whether the factory in Germany would be as fast as the one in Shanghai. Tesla had the Shanghai plant was hoisted within eleven months; An expansion is already underway there. The last time it was planned for Grünheide was that the first cars would leave the factory in the summer of 2021. When it is finished, the US electric car manufacturer plans to build around 500,000 vehicles a year here. At last Musk had one first computer-generated image of the new plant – and also a kind of party and canteen room on the roof.
The plans to recruit personnel for the factory that Tesla calls “Giga Factory” remain unchanged, said Bernd Becking, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Regional Directorate Berlin-Brandenburg of the Federal Employment Agency, on Monday. According to him, not only are technicians who should have a professional qualification sought, but also people for training activities in production. Industry insiders assume 12,000 employees and around 3,500 workers per shift. According to the latest application documents, the factory is said to cost a good one billion euros and be built until March 2021.
Preparations for the shell are currently underway. The state of Brandenburg has not yet received full environmental approval for the first factory in Europe, which is why Tesla is at its own risk with premature construction began. Most recently, the company had requested the use of piles. Environmentalists had recently resisted the pile foundations. On Friday it became known that Tesla wanted to manufacture the batteries it needed for the Grünheide factory itself. Despite the corona pandemic, Tesla had a surplus of $ 104 million in the second quarter, following a large loss in the previous year.