Germany: Elon Musk inaugurates Tesla's first European site near Berlin
Germany: the curious crowd for the inauguration of the new Tesla factory near Berlin this Saturday, October 9, 2021. The factory opens its doors even though the firm has not obtained the green light from the German authorities for its building permit .
REUTERS - ANNEGRET HILSE
Text by: RFI Follow
2 min
Thousands of people have the privilege this Saturday to visit Tesla's mega-factory near Berlin.
The American electric car maker is organizing an open house this Saturday, and company boss Elon Musk, expected in the afternoon, is expected to welcome visitors in person.
Some 27,000 people received an invitation to visit the site while the factory still has not received a building permit.
Advertising
Read more
It is an almost finished factory that the lucky ones can visit this Saturday, October 9, reports our correspondent in Berlin,
Delphine Nerbollier
.
A huge site since it occupies 300 hectares in Grünheide, some 30 kilometers from Berlin, in Brandenburg.
Tesla will be able to build up to 500,000 electric vehicles there per year and employ 12,000 people there.
The American manufacturer also plans to set up the largest electric battery factory in the world there ...
Giga Berlin-Brandenburg Spaß-Party heute!
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 9, 2021
If only this site that the 27,000 visitors of the day can exceptionally visit this Saturday has not yet received a building permit ... Telsa began work two years ago thanks to an exceptional procedure and she is waiting the final authorizations again ... The procedure was slowed down for environmental reasons: the plant is located in particular near a large water table and the water requirements for battery production are worrying; 90 hectares of forest had to be cleared to the detriment of local species.
However,
nothing to
discourage
Elon Musk
.
The boss of Tesla regularly criticizes the German bureaucracy but expects production to start by the end of the year.
This open day on what will be the first European site of the American firm is for him a symbol and it promises to be a popular success.
Faced with the very high demand, Tesla had to refuse entry to thousands of people.
►
To read also
: Tesla is working on a humanoid robot by 2022
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Germany
Industry
United States