Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory Expansion Gets Approval with Capacity Doubling Plan

TapTechNews July 5th news, according to the report of German rbb24, the Brandenburg Environmental Protection Agency has issued a positive approval for the existing site expansion project of Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory. The department said that Tesla can start construction in advance at its own risk.

It is introduced that this expansion is only limited to the capacity expansion within the existing factory site and does not involve the additional land construction part that has caused protests (TapTechNews note: that is, the area where forests need to be cut down. Environmentalists are worried that it may have an impact on the water source in this area).

This expansion is part of Tesla's plan to double the capacity of Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory, with the goal of producing up to 1 million cars per year and increasing battery production to 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) per year.

With the approval of Tesla's expansion project, Tesla can take the lead in building a logistics area for parking new cars and laying the necessary underground cables. Tesla will build a multifunctional tent camp for this purpose and use it as the coordination center of the expansion project.

In addition, Tesla will also build a stairwell, visitor and truck passage on the north side of the die-casting workshop. Tesla has also submitted an application to install a photovoltaic system on the roof of each operating unit building and has been approved.