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After two years of construction, production will start on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at the first Tesla European electric vehicle factory in Berlin. This is the second Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, after the Shanghai Gigafactory, which is Tesla's second gigafactory outside the United States.
The $5.5 billion plant will ramp up the capacity of Tesla SUVs to better meet the market's demand for electric vehicles. It is understood that the plant covers an area of 227,000 square meters and is about the size of 30 football fields.
The Berlin plant is the fourth gigafactory after California, Texas and Shanghai, and Tesla's first manufacturing plant in Europe, and is by far the most advanced and efficient factory because of the latest opening.
According to Tesla, it takes ten hours to complete a Tesla car, the car moves every 45 seconds on the assembly line, and there are more than 400 robots in the workshop involved in manufacturing.
The following follows the drone into the factory interior to observe the whole production process of Tesla from the first perspective:
On the same day, the first Tesla Model Y was delivered to users at the factory, and the first batch of vehicles totaled 30 vehicles, each of which was installed in front of the exclusive license plate of "GIGA XXX", with numbers ranging from 001 to 030. At the same time, Musk also signed each car.
Tesla expects the Berlin plant to recruit 12,000 people, which has already employed 3,500 people. At full capacity, the plant will be able to produce 500,000 vehicles per year, surpassing the number of pure electric vehicles (450,000) sold globally by its German rival Volkswagen in 2021. According to the German magazine Auto & Sport, the Tesla plant aims to produce 2,000 cars in the first few weeks of mass production.
For Tesla, the production of the Berlin factory is of great significance, Musk has also inserted a sharp knife in Europe, the birthplace of the automobile industry, with supply chain advantages and local government financial subsidies, Tesla's sales in Europe may grow again. How to deal with Tesla's challenge will become a difficult problem facing European car brands such as Volkswagen and BBA.
According to foreign media reports, at the opening ceremony of Tesla's Berlin factory in Germany, Elon Musk predicted that Tesla's annual production capacity may be as high as 20 million units in the next decade. In response to questions from Tesla workers, it said: "I think we can produce 20 million cars in 10 years, which is ambitious, but not impossible." "There are about 2 billion cars and trucks in use worldwide each year, and the number of 20 million is equivalent to 1% of the total number of cars in the world every year.
Finally, to share a tidbit: In the process of delivery, Musk continued the tradition of delivery at the Shanghai factory and danced again:
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The entire production process of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory to produce the domestic Model Y:
As you can see from the video, in addition to being as highly automated as modern car factories, Tesla has a lot of vertical integration, as well as unique methods such as giant monomer castings, battery packs (the overall design and use of small batteries).
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