FRANKFURT: Tesla Boss Elon Musk said Tuesday that he plans tobuild the world‘ slargerbattery-Cell factory in the group’s electric car. plant near Berlin.
Tesla construction of a huge “gigafactory” has already started in a wooded area in Gruenheide, south of the German capital, due to to open next year.
The factory is Teslais the first in Europe and is expected to they produce 500,000 Model 3 sedans and Model Y SUVs a year.
Speaking in a european Battery Conference organized by the German Ministry of Economy, Musk said battery Cell production at the same German site would start with a capacity of around 100 gigawatt hours per year, before increasing to 250 GWh per year.
At the time, the South African businessman said he was “pretty sure it would be the largerbattery-cell plant in the world”.
The production of batteries for electric vehicles is currently dominated by Chinese, Japanese and South Korean companies, with Europe representing only a fraction of the market.
Musk announced his ambitious goal the same day he became the world‘ s second richest person, according to to Bloomberg, beating Microsoft founder Bill Gates after Tesla it touched a market valuation of $ 500 billion.
Musk also said it would “make sense” to make a smaller Tesla custom hatchback to the European market.
“In the United States, cars tend to Being bigger … I was driving a Model X through Berlin and we had a lot of trouble finding a parking space that would suit it, “he said at the conference.
Musk added that local residents, some of whom took Teslato cutting for tree felling to give way to plant, you will not experience “detectable amounts of airborne toxins” due to battery production in the factory.
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