The factory premises of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Brandenburg (aerial view) Photo: picture alliance/dpa
By Michael Sauerbier
Car manufacturer Tesla wants to double its production in Brandenburg. The Oder-Spree district expects the building application to be submitted before the end of this year.
Tesla has just cleared another 70 hectares of forest. The new district budget reveals why:
“The company has announced that it will submit an application to expand the plant at the end of 2022,” the 728-page paper says, “in connection with a further increase in capacity from 500,000 to one million cars per year.”
To put it plainly: a second production hall is to be built next to the first. Like in the Tesla factory in Shanghai.
The expansion of the car factory will take time: currently only 2000 Tesla Model Y per week leave the Brandenburg plant.