The U.S. electric car maker Tesla wants to build a new car factory in the Metropolitan area of Berlin. The head of the group, Elon Musk said on Tuesday at an event in the German capital. The Gigafactory 4 should occur in the vicinity of the new airport.
In the city should be located in addition, an engineering and design center. The electric car pioneer had previously announced, in brief, the location of its European manufacturing plant in the 2021 to be produced. Tesla produced so far in the US homeland, high-pulls, currently a factory in China.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2019
There are around 10’000 jobs are to be created, it was said on the Website of the “image”. In the factory, among other things, batteries for the electric cars. Musk tweeted on Wednesday night, the Model Y should be the first vehicle from the factory. The Compact-SUV based on the current Tesla-bearer of hope Model 3, which could be, according to experts, the best-selling vehicle of the company.
boost for the Region
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke said “excellent news for our country.” Brandenburg had already “been in intensive talks” to receive the award for the site, said Woidke. “The Giga-factory will be Brandenburg as an innovative and international site a further boost, and very many people a good job.”
Tesla had announced last month the Start of production on a trial basis in its new factory in China. The so-called Gigafactory in Shanghai was built according to the company, in just ten months. The factory will reach an annual capacity of 500’000 cars. Tesla hopes of a decent production boost and a direct access to the dynamic Chinese market for electric vehicles.
Tesla had risen in the past month on Wall Street with a market value of 53 billion dollars to the most valuable American car maker. The electric car-builders, ahead of the traditional company General Motors (GM), which came to 51 billion dollars. Tesla had to announce at the end of October a quarterly profit of $ 143 million. Experts had actually expected a loss.
step symbol
Tesla is a pioneer in the field of electric mobility, but fought in the face of more expensive and delayed production starts for new models time and again with high losses. At the same time, will practically pay after each quarter, the company discussed whether the demand for electric cars is generally strong enough to carry Musks ambitious growth plans. Also growing competition from China is, where electric vehicles are being heavily subsidised by the state.
the establishment of The factory in Germany has also symbolic power. Tesla dares to the home country of the German Premium car maker, the layers often fight for the same buyer – so the Model 3, therefore, comes as a direct counterpart of BMW 3-series. The Germans are also to provide a wider range of electric-vehicles on the legs. Tesla bought three years ago, the German machine builders Grohmann, specializing in production lines. (chk/sda)
Created: 13.11.2019, 04:41 PM
