While Tesla has yet to announce its entry into the Indian market, the company has been in talks with the Indian government to build a factory in the country. Three people familiar with the matter revealed that the Tesla team will go to India later this month to inspect the location of the factory. The investment in the factory will be approximately US$2 billion (Note: currently approximately 14.48 billion RMB).

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India last month cut import taxes on certain electric vehicles on the condition that manufacturers invest at least $500 million in the country and start production within three years. Under India’s new policy, overseas car companies can import 8,000 cars per year at a lower tax rate.

The source said “they have started production of the right-hand drive models allocated to India” and he expected Tesla to ship a batch of right-hand drive models to India before the end of the year.

In fact, Shanghai has always been Tesla’s main export hub in the Asia-Pacific region. For example, models in right-hand drive markets such as Australia and Japan are produced by the Shanghai Gigafactory. Later, a large number of right-hand drive Model Y models were exported to Europe. However, it was not disclosed whether it had been exported from Berlin instead.

Tesla’s plans to enter India also include investing in charging networks and sourcing more components locally, one of the sources said. Two sources said Tesla is considering locating the factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the western state of Maharashtra and Modi’s home state of Gujarat, and is expected to build it within two years.

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Elon Musk showed up at the German factory wearing a black T-shirt with the words “We are the future (Giga)” printed on it. When he left, he shouted: “Hey, Germany is great! Keep up the good work for Berlin’s victory!”

Far-left activists admitted to carrying out the arson attack. After the incident, the Tesla factory in the suburbs of Berlin was reconnected to the power grid on Monday afternoon. The attack, which occurred southeast of the German capital, caused a fire in a transmission tower close to the factory, but the fire did not spread to the Tesla factory, Tesla’s first production site in Europe.

Tesla said losses due to production disruptions were expected to reach hundreds of millions of euros.

Union council president Michaela Schmitz told local radio station rbb earlier in the day that Elon Musk would hold talks with factory teams. She said that after a week of shutdown, the factory has resumed production and “machines have been restarted in a safe and controlled manner so that workers on the morning shift can resume work.”

Elon Musk did not disclose his specific itinerary in Germany, but local media speculated that he may meet with political leaders in the state of Brandenburg.

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Tesla earlier said it would gradually start up systems at the factory after power is restored. It is reported that the factory currently has approximately 12,500 employees.

It was previously reported that the power outage prevented Tesla from producing about 1,000 cars per day. The person in charge of the factory said last week that the losses caused by the power supply interruption will reach hundreds of millions of euros.

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Steinbach said Tesla will only produce individual battery components at the battery factory at the Berlin Gigafactory, which is different from the company’s original plan. The outside world believes that this should be because Tesla has given priority to the construction of the Texas Super Factory battery plant in consideration of the tax incentives in the United States.

In comments to rbb24, Steinbach said that the battery factory at Gigafactory Berlin has already started. He also pointed out that although the complete battery production process has not been realized directly on site, it is important that the production steps of the battery components have been completed. In this sense, the battery facilities at Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory are already very advanced.

While the battery plant at Gigafactory Berlin is already up and running, it wouldn’t be surprising if the EV maker expands the plant in the near future. But the minister noted that Tesla has yet to submit an application to expand the factory.

So, aside from a statement of intent, the state government doesn’t know exactly what Tesla plans to do to expand its battery production line. Steinbach dismissed environmentalists who opposed Tesla’s Gigafactory, saying, “We see it with more optimism than you do.”

German environmentalists have previously expressed their opposition to the expansion of the Berlin Gigafactory battery factory. They believe that if the expansion occurs, the groundwater in the area will be damaged. Steinbach noted that he was confident that Environment Minister Axel Vogel and the sewerage authority of the Oder-Spree region would be able to find an “appropriate solution”.

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Elon Musk said 14 months ago that Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory planned to produce 5,000 to 10,000 cars per week by the end of this year.

After months of ups and downs, Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory officially opened in March this year. A few weeks after the factories officially opened, Elon Musk called the company’s Gigafactories in Berlin, Germany, and Texas, the U.S., “massive melting pots” that burned through billions of dollars.

While production of electric vehicles at Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory is steadily increasing, with 2,000 vehicles produced in the last week of September, efforts to produce batteries, expand the factory and improve logistics capabilities have been stymied by local regulators in Germany. At an event last year, Elon Musk warned that achieving mass production in Grünheide would be “very difficult,” adding that the company would need “a lot of talented, hardworking people to make it happen.”

According to local German media reports last week, Tesla is already preparing to implement a three-shift 24-hour production plan at the Berlin Gigafactory. According to reports, more than 7,500 people are currently working at the Berlin Gigafactory.

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Tesla has been a top student in raising and maintaining car production capacity for a decade, and it’s not slowing down, and after gaining a foothold in Shanghai, it’s currently ramping up production simultaneously at two major new factories: the Berlin Gigafactory and the Texas Gigafactory.

Tesla announced a major milestone for the Berlin Gigafactory, which produced 2,000 cars in a week.

The plant started its first production earlier this year, and in June, the automaker disclosed that it achieved more than 1,000 Model Y production per week in Berlin.

This means that Tesla managed to roughly double the rate of production in about 3 months. The production of 2,000 Tesla Model Ys per week from the Berlin factory at the market level will also have a significant impact on Tesla’s operations around the world, especially for the high-demand European market. These vehicles are sold in Europe, which means that 2,000 vehicles can be exported from China or the United States every week, which can greatly reduce the cost of logistics and import and export, and the delivery time will also be significantly improved.

That’s impressive, but if Tesla is to hit its goal of producing 5,000 vehicles a week in 2022, it needs to do better in the next three months.

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