【Smart Car Pie News】At 21:00 on March 22, the high-profile Tesla Berlin Gigafactory is reported to be opened, the first batch of German-made Model Y began to be delivered, CEO Elon Musk arrived at the Berlin factory in advance, personally delivered the Model Y car keys to the first owner, and carried out an impromptu "awkward dance" at the ceremony site. This is Tesla's fourth gigafactory in the world after Nevada, New York and Shanghai.
With the Berlin Gigafactory put into operation, Tesla said on Weibo that it is happy to deliver the first cars produced by the Berlin Gigafactory! The construction of Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory was full of difficulties, which was scheduled to be officially put into operation in November last year, but for various reasons, it was only approved by the German side on March 5, and it was necessary to meet the requirements of air pollutant measurement devices, fire prevention and accident prevention measures before putting into operation. It is reported that Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory takes only 45 seconds to produce a Model Y, with an annual production capacity of up to 500,000 vehicles.
Tesla Berlin factory opening site
For the official production of Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory, Hildegard Müller, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), said that "the fact that Tesla chose Grünheide shows the attractiveness of the German automotive industry, And Germany is the driving force of automotive innovation in the world" With the Berlin and Texas plants put into operation, Tesla's total production capacity will reach 2.7 million units.