Tesla announces its next car factory will be near Berlin
Tesla's next "Gigafactory" will be in the Berlin area, Elon Musk announced at an event in Germany on Tuesday evening. Techcrunch's Kirsten Korosec reports that Musk made the comments during an on-stage conversation with Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess at the Golden Steering Wheel awards show.
The original Gigafactory was Tesla's massive battery factory in Nevada. Musk dubbed it a "Gigafactory" because it was designed to produce batteries with gigawatt-hours of storage capacity. Batteries are made in Nevada and then shipped to Tesla's car factory in Fremont, California, for final assembly.
When Tesla built a car manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, the company dubbed that "Gigafactory 3." (Tesla's beleaguered solar panel factory in Buffalo, NY, is Gigafactory 2.) Tesla took a more integrated approach in China, building batteries and cars in the same facility.
It's a reasonable guess that Tesla will take the same integrated approach for its Berlin Gigafactory, which will likely be called Gigafactory 4. Musk said Tuesday that the new facility would be "near the new airport," Korosec reports.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @03:13PM (1 child)
Germany has stagnated under Merkel. While the airport is the fault of Berlin politicians, the whole country is sort of in a torpor.
The airport won't be done soon, won't be amazing, but there's decent road transport available to the rest of Europe.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 14 2019, @10:50PM
German manufacturing is up. [businessinsider.com]
You must be confusing them with the U.S.: U.S. manufacturing dives to 10-year low as trade tensions weigh [reuters.com]