Giga Berlin's Speed and Tesla's Remarkable Error Culture

Tesla Giga Berlin's construction is progressing at a rapid pace. A contractor hired by Tesla told the "world": "The company learns incredibly quickly and is constantly adapting new knowledge."

Elon Musk is satisfied. “Giga Berlin is being built at record speed,” tweeted the Tesla boss at the end of July. "The German method with prefabricated components is very impressive."

From next summer Tesla plans to build up to 500,000 cars a year in its Gigafactory 4 in Grünheide in Brandenburg near Berlin. The factory would have to be completed in just one year.

That actually seems possible. Because Tesla does not wait for the approval of building applications of Giga Berlin, but simply builds on it - and improves the applications in the ongoing process.

"The error culture at Tesla is remarkable," said Dierk Homeyer, spokesman for the Arikon construction company working on the Gigafactory, of "Welt" . "The company learns incredibly quickly and is constantly adapting to new knowledge."

Tesla is in a hurry, says Jörg Steinbach, Brandenburg's Minister of Economics, the "Welt". The company is setting out to undercut the construction record for a Gigafactory, which the Gigafactory in Shanghai holds at 11 months.

Tesla expects Model Y production to begin at the plant next July. Despite the hot temperatures in Berlin, construction crews are moving along quickly in preparation for a massive push of Tesla’s electric vehicles in Europe next year.

I would like to raise a question here. Does anyone know who Tesla’s battery partner for Giga Berlin is? Since Tesla will not be producing batteries there initially, I assume those will be coming from Nevada. Would be interesting if Tesla decides to build its own cells there. And this is why I am really looking forward to Tesla Battery Day to know more about this.

In fact, CATL, Tesla’s Chinese battery partner has started building its first overseas electric car battery factory in Thuringia, a state in east-central Germany, marking the start of construction of the first lithium-ion battery factory in Germany. Thuringia is only 215 miles away from Grunheide, where Tesla is building it’s first European Gigafactory, just outside of Berlin.

"According to what I have observed, that could well work," said the SPD politician. And raves about Tesla's plans in Grünheide: “The world has changed for us from one day to the next. We are suddenly part of a story, part of the expansion of electromobility in Germany."

CATL's groundbreaking ceremony was held on October 18, 2019, on a 23 ha greenfield to achieve 14GWh production capacity of the battery by 2022.

CATL could potentially be Tesla Giga Berlin’s battery partner, but Tesla is going to start the production of Model Y in early or mid-2021 while CATL plans to achieve 14GWh production capacity of battery only by 2022. However, CATL may start earlier, next year and start supplying Giga Berlin’s Model Y batteries, while gradually increasing its capacity as Tesla will probably gradually increase its capacity of Model Y production as well.

Do we have anyone from Thuringia listening and watching this report? If yes, could you please, send me some photos and videos of how CATL’s battery construction in Thuringia is progressing? You can find my email in the About page of our Torque News channel.

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Reference
Teslarati https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-berlin-august-update/
Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/bau-von-gigafactory-laeuft-in-rekordgeschwindigkeit-fehlerkultur-bei-tesla-ist-sehr-bemerkenswert/

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