Recently, some foreign netizens found that a certain model of Tesla Model Y Performance was being shipped somewhere on a vehicle transport vehicle in Germany.
The photos show that the six Model Y Performance vehicles on the truck may be transported to a nearby facility for crash testing, emissions assessments and mileage rating studies, as the vehicles will eventually be produced and delivered to customers at the Berlin plant.
Performance models can be identified in a variety of ways: including red brake calipers or red lines under the "Dual Motor" logo located on the vehicle's trunk.
The Model Y is one of Tesla's most recently released models, which was first delivered in March 2020. Since then, the car has become Tesla's best-selling model, even surpassing the Model 3 sedan. At present, it has obtained the priority production right at Tesla's Berlin plant, and it is expected that after the ModelY is fully operational, other vehicles will follow suit. In fact, it is not uncommon for Tesla to ship a vehicle to a certain region for testing before production, and before the production of the Model 3 Performance at the Shanghai Gigafactory in China, it was also found that the vehicle was transported by a transport vehicle to an unknown location for evaluation.
The Berlin Gigafactory was expected to start production of the ModelY by the end of 2021. However, various bottlenecks in the regulatory process delayed Tesla's initial production at the Berlin Gigafactory until early 2022. The recent relevant obstruction is related to the pumping of water at a nearby facility, as the Egersdorf facility approved an increase in the facility's pumping rate without the necessary testing, which affected Tesla's production schedule. The Frankfurt Executive** confirmation hearing, which was scheduled for December 6, was postponed and has not yet taken place.
As a result, multiple sources revealed that Tesla's Berlin factory will not start production before the end of 2021, and they are expected to start production of model Y models in early 2022.