Tesla confirmed that the Gigafactory in Berlin has been able to increase electric vehicle production capacity to 2,000 vehicles per week. If this new production rate can be maintained, it’s a huge achievement for the automaker. Right now, every automaker in the world is navigating an extremely difficult supply chain crisis in order to ramp up EV production and survive the rapid transition to EVs sweeping the industry.
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.
