Tesla Planned to Open Its First European Gigafactory Last Summer, It’s Still Waiting

The Wall Street Journal2022-02-21

BERLIN—When Rocco Pigola, a 59-year-old refinery worker from Bavaria who has owned six Tesla vehicles, heard about the electric-car maker’s new plant near Berlin, he jumped at the opportunity to order...

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TK360
2022-02-22
TK360
Nice move
Yellow Tiger
2022-02-22
Yellow Tiger
Tesla sucks
Yellow Tiger
2022-02-22
Yellow Tiger
stupid musk， go home and play with your doge. Hope tesla crash and burn🔥
rich9888H
2022-02-22
rich9888H
Too many remark surface on Tesla. Have some impact on the stock
Tanyl
2022-02-21
Tanyl
It seems like Tesla will grow again
Avg123
2022-02-21
Avg123
Good to know this 👍🏻

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It’s really difficult,” he said at the Grünheide plant in October.In a way, Tesla has delivered: The plant is ready to produce cars. The regional economics ministry confirmed in January that Tesla had purchased a section of railroad track to run a shuttle between nearby Erkner and the plant to ease workers’ commute. Germany’s powerful industrial labor union, IG Metall, said it has opened an office outside the plant to organize the workforce. Customers are putting in orders for cars to be built there.What is missing to kick off commercial production is the final planning approval.Environmental opposition to the plant explains some of the delays, but the biggest delay, regional officials and analysts said, was caused by Tesla’s late application to build a battery plant that wasn’t included in the original permit application.“That cost them an additional six months,” said Stefan Bratzel, director of the Center of Automotive Management, a research institute in Germany. Even so, he said, “the plant is going up in record time.”The Brandenburg state government said it used fast-track laws created in the wake of German reunification to accelerate the approval process. The state has issued preliminary approval for the plant in stages, allowing Tesla to construct the plant and build a few vehicles to test systems, but preventing commercial production until final approval.Under German law, Tesla had to submit an environmental impact study that was open to public comment. During this process, citizens and environmental groups raised concerns about the plant’s impact on the local environment. The state collected more than 800 individual complaints during public hearings in 2020 and 2021.State officials have said they need to study each objection and make any required changes to the plant to ensure that the final permit can withstand any legal challenges after the plant has officially opened.A spokeswoman for the Brandenburg environment ministry said that the approval process was in the final phase, but that she couldn’t name a date for approval.If approved, the plant could still face roadblocks. A concern expressed by local citizens and by environmental groups is that the plant and service providers who may subsequently locate in the area could use too much water, threatening residents’ supply. Most of these lawsuits were dismissed by the courts.Environmental activists have sued to block a utility provider from increasing the water it draws from the ground to serve the Tesla plant via a second utility. If the court sides with the plaintiffs, the water company says it would have a shortfall so large that the entire community would be affected.“In a nutshell: No water—no Tesla,” the Wasserverband Strausberg-Erkner company said.Analysts say it is unlikely that approval will be withheld for the factory dubbed Giga Berlin. Such a decision, which could require Tesla to pack up the plant and return the land to its original state, would likely scare investors away from Germany for years, they said.Back in Bavaria, Mr. Pigola said he placed his order for a Model Y Performance car in September and was given a preliminary delivery date in January. He says he got a call in November telling him that the vehicle probably won’t be ready until March, and that his choice of a white model would take even longer.“I changed to black,” he said. “I still don’t have a firm delivery date.”","kind":null,"is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":true,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":9097227163,"gmtCreate":1645487783487,"gmtModify":1676534031560,"author":{"id":"3574766349354741","authorId":"3574766349354741","name":"TK360","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Nice move&nbsp;","listText":"Nice move&nbsp;","text":"Nice move","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097227163","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9097266582,"gmtCreate":1645486480005,"gmtModify":1676534031244,"author":{"id":"4107177846885060","authorId":"4107177846885060","name":"Yellow Tiger","avatar":"https://static.itradeup.com/news/dac7fa409cf503dac070415f992e4a98","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Tesla sucks","listText":"Tesla sucks","text":"Tesla sucks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097266582","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9097266893,"gmtCreate":1645486447439,"gmtModify":1676534031138,"author":{"id":"4107177846885060","authorId":"4107177846885060","name":"Yellow Tiger","avatar":"https://static.itradeup.com/news/dac7fa409cf503dac070415f992e4a98","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"stupid musk， go home and&nbsp;play with your doge. Hope tesla crash and burn🔥&nbsp;","listText":"stupid musk， go home and&nbsp;play with your doge. Hope tesla crash and burn🔥&nbsp;","text":"stupid musk， go home and play with your doge. Hope tesla crash and burn🔥","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097266893","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9097261669,"gmtCreate":1645486172259,"gmtModify":1676534031091,"author":{"id":"3578090151890801","authorId":"3578090151890801","name":"rich9888H","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/302dcd19af3f2e77b41a1d01cd84d518","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0a8758340a08196056f8bc1e54805193","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"Too many remark surface on Tesla. Have some impact on the stock","listText":"Too many remark surface on Tesla. Have some impact on the stock","text":"Too many remark surface on Tesla. Have some impact on the stock","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097261669","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9097645567,"gmtCreate":1645454696587,"gmtModify":1676534029324,"author":{"id":"4087109808120260","authorId":"4087109808120260","name":"Tanyl","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/174329973340cf0f5b68791ee5b08afd","vip":1,"crmLevel":9,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"It seems like Tesla will grow again","listText":"It seems like Tesla will grow again","text":"It seems like Tesla will grow again","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097645567","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9097684463,"gmtCreate":1645444007961,"gmtModify":1676534028340,"author":{"id":"3586313646240085","authorId":"3586313646240085","name":"Avg123","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1396c9a9a31b9f626014d1f142fd2839","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0a8758340a08196056f8bc1e54805193","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"Good to know this 👍🏻","listText":"Good to know this 👍🏻","text":"Good to know this 👍🏻","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097684463","repostId":1107055377,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":81,"commentSize":9,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1107055377"}