RBB (public TV from Berlin-City), had a decent update on the Tesla plant going up in Grünheide (fairly rural area about 20 km outside of the center of Berlin, SE direction). It's worth a read.
Three shifts are being planned, with a total of 10,500 employees at the plant. The general plan is a yearly production schedule of 500k cars coming out of the plant and being sold around Europe.
Nothing standing in the way of the plant? Well....environment complaints have been lodged and it's already past 300 of these complaints. If this were a normal plant in a normal area of Germany, it'd be easy enough to predict a two to four delay situation.
The problem here for the environmentalists? You can go around all of old DDR (East Germany) and since 1990.....find almost no major production facilities being established. Jobs-wise, folks around the eastern side of Germany have been begging for something like Tesla for thirty years. Local politicians are aware of the public frustration, and kinda agree....if you were to delay Tesla's situation by more than a year....they'd halt everything and move off to Czech or Hungary, or Poland.
As for the goal of selling 500k Teslas a year? Looking at the price levels, and limited public interest....I think they've got a problem in the first year or two.
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