Tesla is Building a huge battery plant in Berlin, Germany and the company plans to kick start with production in November and December.
Speaking at the launch, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said, “We’re aiming to start production in a few months, basically, November or December, and hopefully deliver our first cars in December.”
“But starting production is kind of the easy part. The hard part is reaching volume production. Volume production amounts to 5,000 or “hopefully 10,000” vehicles per week, said Musk.
The factory is expected to manufacture Model Y vehicles, in addition to millions of battery cells.
Tesla submitted plans to invest around $5.8 billion in a battery plant with 50 GWh capacity next to the 300-hectare site, and Musk promised volume production of battery cells by the end of the year.
Tesla gigafactory construction in Berlin-Brandenburg was granted two years ago by authorities under an exceptional procedure. The site is nearly complete, despite opposition from locals who are holding up final approval for the plant due to environmental concern.
Musk defended the factory against critics saying it used “relatively little” water and that battery production would be “sustainable.”
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