In September, Tesla already produced around 2000 Teslas at the Gigafactory Grünheide near Berlin, which opened in March. Model Y per week. With the hiring of new employees, production capacity should be ramped up further and further. Now Tesla announces the next milestone at the Gigafactory Grünheide near Berlin.
In the third week of December, 3000 vehicles of the popular Tesla SUV ran for the first time. Model Y from the assembly line at the Gigafactory Grünheide, Tesla has now announced. This puts the site on a par with the new "Gigafactory" in the US state of Texas, which went into operation later this year, and where the mark of 3000 e-cars per week was reached shortly before that this month.
These 3000 vehicles are currently still to be produced with two shifts per week. It is not yet certain when the planned third shift will start to further ramp up production. In the first expansion stage of the Gigafactory Grünheide, around 500,000 electric cars are then to be produced annually. In the later stages, up to 1,000,000 vehicles are planned. However, this figure is likely to be reached only with the sedan. Model 3 or another new vehicle from the Tesla fleet. Tesla's ramp-up, like the factory's completion, is not proceeding as quickly as the company had hoped. According to reports, this is also due to ongoing problems in recruiting the necessary personnel.
Despite hiring a lot of new staff, the electric carmaker Tesla is still far from reaching its targets for the Gigafactory Grünheide, as it still hasn't hired as many people as planned, it said. Tesla has so far only been able to hire around 7,000 of the planned 12,000 employees.
