Tesla share: examiners take a close look at the Tesla factory in Grünheide

The so-called initial revision, a kind of acceptance test, starts on Monday (9 May). The Ministry of the Environment announced that the plant would be checked by May 20 to determine whether the plant was actually built and operated in accordance with the permit. If it is determined that requirements are not or not fully met, the competent authority sets grace periods. If conditions are still open, there could be coercive measures. A ban on the operation can only be considered if immediate dangers are caused.

Vehicles have officially been rolling off the assembly line in Tesla’s first e-car factory in Europe since March 22, but not all the requirements of the country’s environmental approval have yet been met. According to the state government, this is permissible: because the plant will be commissioned in stages, the requirements for the respective parts of the plant have been successively met, according to the Ministry of the Environment. All requirements that serve to ensure plant operation without direct danger to the general public and the environment are met.

The Brandenburg Green League is demanding that the operating permit be banned from the Oder-Spree district due to ambiguities after the leaking of a water-polluting liquid. According to the authorities, 15,000 liters of a paint mixture leaked out in the paint shop in April. When the pumped-out liquid was loaded, two to three liters ran onto the driveway and were bound. The liquid is considered slightly hazardous to water. According to the district, it did not get into the sewage system or groundwater. The Strausberg-Erkner water association sees this as a failure, but the Ministry of the Environment does not.

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