Musk presents "Giga Berlin": This is how the German Tesla plant should look

Tesla plans to start producing its electric cars in Brandenburg in one year. Now CEO Musk is posting a graphic of the planned factory for the first time. "Giga Berlin" is well received by its fans with a possible party area.

Tesla boss Elon Musk himself presented his planned factory near Berlin on the Internet. The entrepreneur showed a vision of the finished system in Grünheide in Brandenburg on Twitter and only overwritten his message with "Giga Berlin". The picture shows a large building and several small ones.

The main building in the foreground with a solar roof has a wide entrance and a glass window front on the second floor. The factory is called "Gigafactory" by Tesla. By early afternoon, more than 200,000 Twitter users had "liked" the picture with a heart.

According to information from industry insiders, the main building will house a lobby, the body shop, the press shop, the paint shop, the foundry and the final assembly. Offices are planned on the second floor. The drive production is planned in one of several outbuildings. The paint shop and drive production should therefore have priority during construction.

"Rave room" on the roof?

Musk, who is also known for unconventional Twitter messages, answered a question "Rooftop swimming pool?" with "Sure." After his idea of ​​a "mega-rave cave" from March, he once again made dance fans curious: "Could be an indoor and outdoor rave room on the roof," he wrote on Twitter. The chimneys were "carefully hidden", he told another fan.

Tesla plans to roll up to 500,000 vehicles a year in Grünheide in Brandenburg from July next year. The final environmental approval from the state of Brandenburg is still pending. Tesla is already building at its own risk through early approvals. The Brandenburg State Environment Agency recently gave the green light for the foundation and structural work with an early start. Part of the plant – the press shop and foundry – is to be built on piles, Tesla is planning an application for pile foundations.

Environmentalists fear negative effects on the groundwater, among other things. So far, over 370 objections to the project have been received, and more are possible after a modified application for approval. To relieve traffic, the Brandenburg Ministry of Transport is planning to invest 100 million euros in rail and road from the state's future fund, which was raised by credit. The majority is earmarked for projects from 2021 to 2023, according to a response from the ministry to a request from the left-wing parliamentary group.

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