Tesla is beginning cutting down another 170 acres of forest at Gigafactory Berlin to prepare for a major expansion of the electric vehicle factory.
Gigafactory Berlin sits lately on about three hundred hectares that Tesla acquired for the gigantic production project.
The site sits in a giant forested domain and the automaker had to clear much of the forest to create a domain for the plant’s structure.
It’s a moot task for some conservationists because some species of animals living in the domain may see their habitats affected, but the automaker finally allowed the domain to be erased in 2020.
Here are the sections Tesla has removed:
The first segment cleared for the first phase of the plant consists of 90 hectares or about 220 acres. It ended in early 2020.
We are now informed that Tesla is beginning to open another 70 hectares (around 170 acres) for expansion (via rbb24):
American electric car maker Tesla needs to expand its factory in Grünheide (Oder-Spree) in Brandenburg. The next level of expansion is set to increase production capacity, the company’s German news firm learned Friday. For this, from this Friday 70 hectares of pine forest would be dismantled.
The expansion is already attracting the attention of environmentalists who have remade plans to voice their considerations about the deforestation effort.
Last month, we reported that Tesla had implemented an expansion assignment at Gigafactory Berlin, which includes the structure of a cargo depot, exercise station, exercise center and kindergarten, as well as other logistics spaces for production.
Gigafactory Berlin’s first aims to produce 5,000 Model Y cars per week and the automaker recently produces 2,000 games per week.
Tesla also plans to build battery cells at the factory and, in all likelihood, build more electric vehicles.
The company already employs 7,000 employees at the plant, but the number of employees is expected to increase to 12,000 on a full scale.
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