Tesla officially opened its Gigafactory in Grünheide, Brandenburg, on March 22, 2022. Tesla CEO Elon Musk traveled from California for the opening. The first 30 electric cars of the “Y-Model” type rolled off the production line that day. According to the manufacturer, the e-vehicle has a range of around 500 kilometers. For the Brandenburg region, the choice of location by the high-tech company Tesla represents a turning point. In the future, the region would like to attract further investors and, among other things, also locate a battery storage plant in Brandenburg. This would create the conditions for a complete value chain for electromobility, according to Brandenburg’s Minister President Dietmar Woidke.

In the future, 12,000 employees will work at the new Tesla site to produce 500,000 e-cars annually. In addition, a production plant for battery storage is also to be built here. The Gigafactory is the US manufacturer’s first major production site in the whole of Europe.

Source:

pv-magazine, article by Sandra Enkhardt (3/22/2022):

https://www.pv-magazine.de/2022/03/22/tesla-eroeffnet-giga-fabrik-in-gruenheide-erste-model-y-rollen-vom-band/, accessed: 3/22/2022 at 5 p.m.

MAZ-online.de (3/22/2022):

https://www.maz-online.de/Brandenburg/Brandenburg-Tesla-Gigafactory-Eroeffnung-in-Bildern, accessed: 3/22/2022 at 5 p.m.