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Tesla Giga Berlin & Giga Texas well underway

September 11, 2020 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

The Gigafactories under construction in Texas and Berlin have been making progress despite the final permit for the site in Grünheide, close to the German capital still pending. Brandenburg state minister Jörg Steinbach is confident however to be able to grant final permissions before the year’s end. A hearing to recapture the 406 objections is […]

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Tesla brings in giant casting machines for Model Y

August 17, 2020 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

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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Giga Berlin under threat from German bureaucracy

July 20, 2020 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

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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Missouri offers billions in US Tesla plant bid

April 15, 2020 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

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

April 9, 2020 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

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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Giga-Berlin rockets ahead despite pandemic

March 30, 2020 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

The cleared pine forest area for Tesla’s planned Giga-Berlin factory in Grünheide, Germany, has now been almost completely levelled. According to a local news outlet, Brandenburg’s State Environmental Agency now wants to allow the foundations to be built in advance, despite 373 objections to the project. According to the local newspaper B.Z. the state agency […]

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European Model 3 almost sold out for the quarter

February 24, 2020 Chris Randall Syndicated Comments Off

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The Tesla Model 3 is apparently almost sold out in Europe for this quarter. As of this week, Tesla has indicated May as the expected delivery date for the Model 3 in almost all European countries. Previously the company had forecast delivery in March. According to the Tesla configurator, the new delivery date forecast applies […]

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Gigafactory 4: Tesla applies for state funding in Germany

February 10, 2020 Nora Manthey Syndicated Comments Off

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Tesla has submitted the expected application for subsidies to the state of Brandenburg for the construction of the Gigafactory 4 near Berlin. Federal Economic Minister Peter Altmaier has now formulated “certain criteria” for a possible federal subsidy. According to Tillmann Stenger, chairman of the board of the responsible business promotion bank (ILB) of the state […]

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Tesla signs land purchase contract for Gigafactory 4

January 20, 2020 Carrie Hampel Syndicated Comments Off

In Germany, the site for the planned Tesla factory in Brandenburg district of Grünheide has been moved forward with a decisive step: Tesla has now signed the purchase contract with the state of Brandenburg for the 300 hectares of land for Tesla’s Gigafactory 4. The purchase contract was already approved by the Brandenburg state government […]

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