Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin starts producing 5,000 electric cars a week and wants to quadruple output

Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin was able to reach its design capacity for electric vehicles by the end of the first quarter of 2023. It took almost a year from the start of deliveries to do so.

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Tesla launched the assembly of electric cars in the German capital at the end of 2021. The Berlin plant has been set up to produce the popular Model Y crossovers. Deliveries of the vehicles began in April 2022. And now, almost a year later, Tesla has reached design capacity.

Berlin's Gigafactory is now capable of producing 5,000 electric cars a week. That means 250,000 vehicles could come off the assembly line in a year. Tesla originally intended to reach full production capacity by the end of 2022. The deviation from the schedule is due to a delay in component deliveries.

Tesla wants to quadruple production of the vehicles. A request to do so has already been submitted by the US company. But this requires expansion of production capacity. The current approval allows Tesla to produce 500,000 vehicles a year in Germany.

Source: electrek