Tesla will double its production capacity in Grünheide (Germany)
-Tesla wants to double the capacity of its production plant near Berlin from 500,000 to one million electric vehicles a year, which would make it the Europe largest car plant at a time when German carmakers are struggling to keep pace with the transition to battery electric vehicles.
-The Californian carmaker said it wanted to add capacity to build other models in the plant but did not specify which ones (probably the Model 3 and the future Model 2?). Tesla is also looking to double its battery cell production capacity, to 100 GWh per year, according to internal documents.
-These capacity increases by Tesla will be achieved through the expansion of its Grünheide factory in Germany. As revealed in a statement from the Brandenburg Ministry of the Environment, public participation in the approval process for the expansion will begin on July 19, 2023.
-In March 2023, Tesla submitted the first application for the expansion. We already knew that Tesla wanted to increase its production capacity at this factory from 500,000 units currently to one million electric cars per year in the future. This time, the announcement is official. As the German ministry announced, the expansion will also be accompanied by “an increase in battery production capacity from 50 GWh currently to 100 GWh per year in the medium term”.