The American manufacturer of electric cars Tesla already employs over 10,000 people at the gigafactory in Grünheide in the federal state of Brandenburg near Berlin.
Sources from the company told the DPA agency. The company said on Twitter that it will now produce 4,000 cars a week there. At the same time, the plan assumed that the company would reach this number in three weeks.
Thus, the company’s plant in eastern Germany produces 200,000 cars annually. The goal of the first expansion phase has not yet been met – Tesla wants to produce half a million cars a year in Grünheide with 12,000 employees. Tesla has already announced that ramping up production will take some time. The company has been producing the Model Y car in its only factory since last March.
The company planned to increase production in Brandenburg to 4,000 per week from March 13 and to more than 5,000 by the end of June. Last October, Grünheide’s production reached 2,000 cars per week, and in December 3,000 cars per week, Reuters reported.
Tesla has also started assembling batteries in Germany that will soon be used in vehicles produced at the Grünheide factory. But last week the company said it would scale back plans to make batteries in Germany and instead focus on making them in the United States, where there are more favorable tax incentives. Tesla also said last week that it is preparing to manufacture cell components such as electrodes, some of which will be shipped from the Grünheide plant to the United States.
