FRANKFURT: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has given its German crew six extra months to start out production at its delayed manufacturing facility close to Berlin, its first gigafactory in Europe, German weekly Automobilwoche reported, citing firm sources.
A Tesla spokeswoman declined to touch upon the report, referring to final month’s official assertion by the carmaker that put the beginning of manufacturing on the Gruenheide web site in the direction of the top of 2021.
Initially, Tesla had deliberate to start out manufacturing on July 1, 2021, however pink tape and plans to additionally construct a battery cell manufacturing facility on the positioning have delayed the mission.
Tesla final month slammed prolonged regulatory processes in Europe’s largest economic system, saying its approval framework “directly contradicts the urgency to plan and realise such projects that is necessary to battle climate change”.
