Tesla has released a statement in Giga Berlin's new 11,000-page documents about the environmental consequences of the construction delay. The statement says "for every month of construction delay, CO2 emissions in Germany and Europe can be expected to be more than one megaton higher.”

Tesla is planning an almost completed Gigafactory near Berlin. New 11,000-page application for a factory in Grünheide

The guesswork of how big the battery factory in the Grünheider electric car plant will be has come to an end. The plans are now on display - with some blackouts.

The Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide is considered to be the greatest threat to the German automotive industry: The US electric car manufacturer, led by Elon Musk, has now rescheduled the configuration of the almost finished factory, in which 500,000 vehicles per year will roll off the assembly line, and a battery cell factory expanded.

The new proposal includes more than 11,000 pages, is in town halls of the Oder-Spree region since Friday or online to be viewed. It is the third interpretation. The project started in November 2019. According to the application, Tesla is determined to start production in 2021.

"For every month of construction delay, it can be assumed that CO2 emissions in Germany and Europe will be more than a megaton higher," says a document.

An overview of the most important changes in the Gigafactory and previously unknown details.
Battery cell production

The largest battery factory in the world, as Elon Musk once announced for "Giga Berlin", will not be: But it will be the largest in Europe with the capacity of 50 gigawatt-hours (GWh), which is stated for the first time, "which is a number of cells of 500 Million cells per year ”, as stated in the application.

That is enough to equip the 500,000 cars produced here, and even more. For comparison: The VW Group is planning a new battery cell factory in Salzgitter, which will only reach a capacity of 40 GWh in a few years. Tesla will manufacture a new generation of battery cells using a dry-electrode process, a type of coated film that will then be wound into a cell.

All of this is secret, information on process chains and substances are partially blacked out in the publicly available documents, as well as on the costs. Tesla fears industrial espionage. The battery factory hall, which has been puzzled over a lot, is already under construction - applied for and approved as a "warehouse." Tesla will apply for conversion.

Tesla also wants to build the press shop larger, in which mainly bodies are produced. To this end, a new section of the building is to be added to the existing production hall in the north. It is to be supported with almost 1,200 underground piles in the Brandenburg sandy soil.

Car factory, reconfigured

The car factory is about 80 percent ready, said Brandenburg Minister for Economic Affairs Jörg Steinbach (SPD) recently. Now a lot is going to change again: Because there is also a plastic production, in which mirrors and bumper parts are made, for example. The vertical range of manufacture and thus the added value will be increased, it is said.

Another new feature is that the press shop is being expanded, for which in addition to the 550 for the previous foundation, another 1180 concrete piles have to be driven into the ground to ensure stability. The body-in-white production is streamlined from two production lines to one - with the same output of 10,000 pieces per week.

The previously planned test track with jogging tracks to detect rattling noises is no longer applicable: Instead, the Teslas “made in Grünheide” quality check will be carried out hydraulically. More delivery vehicles will roll into Grünheide, 1515 trucks a day.
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