Tesla construction sites in Texas and Brandenburg

In Germany, the Brandenburg State Office for the Environment has now granted permission for an early start to a further construction phase of the Giga Berlin plant. In the USA, construction on the Giga Texas site is progressing rapidly. At the Grünheide site in Brandenburg, Germany, the permission now granted permits, among other things, the […]

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Tesla brings in giant casting machines for Model Y

One of the new giant casting machines has arrived at Tesla’s main factory in Fremont, California. The machine will be used to cast the rear frame of Model Y in a single piece before the end of the year. In Germany, changes are afoot at the Giga Berlin construction site. Tesla boss Elon Musk has […]

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Tesla expansion in Brandenburg, Shanghai and Greece

Shortly after the official confirmation that Tesla will also manufacture battery cells in its Giga Berlin factory currently under construction, it has become apparent which cells will be manufactured at the German location. At the same time, Tesla is expanding in Shanghai and entering the Greek market. Firstly to Germany: According to Brandenburg’s Minister of […]

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Giga Berlin under threat from German bureaucracy

It is all in the water when it should be in the bag. The trouble surrounding permissions to build the Tesla Gigafactory in Germany continues as local media reports. A company charged with covering the water requirements for Giga Berlin has stopped planning. Regional broadcaster RBB reports this online, citing an internal letter from the […]

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Tesla allowed to lay foundation for Brandenburg Gigafactory

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Tesla has received the green light from the German authorities to start building the foundations for the planned plant in Grünheide – even though the rest of the environmental permit is still pending. This was announced by the Environment Ministry of the German state of Brandenburg. The Californian electric car manufacturer can now officially begin […]

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Tesla revising Gigafactory 4 application

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According to the Brandenburg state government, Tesla will revise the application for approval of the planned first factory in Europe. This also means that the documents will be made public again. In the new application, “essential things” have been changed, said Minister of Economics Jörg Steinbach on Wednesday at the state parliament’s economic committee in […]

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Missouri offers billions in US Tesla plant bid

In the USA, the city of Joplin in Missouri has made a formal bid for Tesla’s new Gigafactory. In Germany, Tesla’s Giga Berlin is making progress with local infrastructure. But first to America, where Tesla is looking for a location in “central USA” for another gigafactory to produce the Cybertruck and the Model Y for […]

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Tesla Model 3 Long-Range option ready to go in China

Tesla is apparently planning to start selling the locally produced Model 3 with Long-Range battery pack in China this week. So far, the Model 3 is only offered in China in the Standard Range+ version. As Bloomberg reports, the new long-range version is expected to cost around 350,000 yuan before subsidies, the equivalent of around […]

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Tesla does not expect delays to Gigafactory 4

Tesla does not anticipate any delays in the construction of the Brandenburg factory due to the withdrawal of its American employees from Germany because of the coronavirus. The ground-breaking ceremony is still expected to take place in April. On Thursday, a report in a German newspaper had revealed that Tesla had ordered back to the […]

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Construction kicks off for Gigafactory 4

The construction preparations for the planned European Gigafactory of Tesla in Brandenburg have begun. The clearing of a 91 hectare pine forest began on Thursday evening. Brandenburg’s Minister of Economics Jörg Steinbach announced the launch via Twitter. “It’s starting. Construction preparations have begun. A historical photo from a few minutes ago”, the SPD politician twittered […]

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