The Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment provides information about new advance permits for the construction of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin in different ways: Sometimes there is a press release, sometimes you get to know about it directly from the minister in sessions of the state parliament, and sometimes only from media reports. To report. Now Tesla has again received permission to complete parts of its German Gigafactory subject to dismantling prior to the completion of the overall process. And perhaps in line with the current visit by the Tesla boss to the construction site, the ministry only used its own Twitter account for this information.
Tesla work inside and with a helicopter
“LfU Brandenburg today approved the early start for the installation of machines and units (…) in final assembly at Tesla Giga Berlin,” the ministry wrote on Wednesday afternoon on Twitter. It also published an aerial photo of the exterior of the almost completed electric car factory.
Parts of the most recent advance permits also related to interior work, which means that the installation of production technology in the new Tesla buildings has long since begun. In mid-April, the laying of underground sewage pipes and lines was also approved. At the same time, Brandenburg’s Environment Minister Axel Vogel informed that Tesla wanted to install exhaust air chimneys on the roofs using a helicopter, which was observed last week after the approval.
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When the ministry announced the latest advance approval for Tesla via Twitter on Wednesday, the CEO is likely to have stayed on the Gigafactory site. He arrived there that Monday, according to information from the state government for a working visit with mainly technical intentions. In between, Musk took time to meet politicians and fans several times.
As the Tesla boss said about one of them, he is now hoping for production to start in Grünheide before the end of the year. Until the end of April, the company had stuck to its first-mentioned date in July, but then announced that local production of battery cells would become part of its Gigafactory plans. This will in all likelihood require a new public participation, from the start of which until final approval would ideally take three months.
Final assembly systems for Giga Berlin
Musk may be in Germany to finalize the new plans before their official submission. With the latest advance approval, according to the ministry, systems for the “assembly of interior fittings, cockpit, merging of chassis, engine” can now be installed in the Tesla factory in parallel. A test production of Model Y would be allowed there before the final approval, but according to the Brandenburg state government, they may not be sold until the process has been completed.
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