Tesla has shared a brand new recap video for its car manufacturing facility in Germany, recalling lots of the website’s prime highlights for the yr—in addition to a few of the challenges the manufacturing facility confronted.
In a Tuesday publish on the corporate’s Manufacturing X web page, Tesla shared a video pointing to how a lot it has completed at its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg this yr, regardless of lots of the challenges the staff confronted from begin to end in 2024. These particularly included a few of Tesla’s manufacturing facility closures and a number of makes an attempt by environmental activists to derail the corporate’s manufacturing plans, seemingly to little or no avail.
Tesla’s Giga Berlin produces the corporate’s Mannequin Y crossover for a lot of Europe and surrounding markets. In January, Tesla’s Giga Berlin was compelled to halt manufacturing on account of armed conflicts within the Purple Sea, inflicting a halt in output beginning on January 29. Nevertheless, the corporate managed to renew manufacturing at full pace by February 12.
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Then, only a month later in March, Tesla was compelled to halt manufacturing at Giga Berlin as soon as once more. This time, the pause was on account of an arson assault on the manufacturing facility’s predominant energy substation, with the environmental activist group Vulcan Group claiming accountability for the assault.
The group went on to say that it was aiming to cease manufacturing on the manufacturing facility, on account of environmental points with Tesla general, Elon Musk, and what it referred to as “technofascism.” After a bit greater than every week, Tesla managed to renew manufacturing at Giga Berlin, and Musk later went on to name for the attackers to be caught and punished, whereas one Minister tried to encourage Musk and Tesla to concentrate on their public relations efforts.
In Could, activists additionally tried to storm Giga Berlin and get inside, inflicting accidents of no less than one protestor and three cops. The corporate continued to face protest efforts from environmental activist teams all year long, with some that very same month additionally creating treehouses in close by forests that Tesla deliberate to cut down for its upcoming manufacturing facility growth.
Though Tesla promised to re-plant 3 times as many bushes because it eliminated, the protestors remained lively within the space up by way of final month, when police lastly managed to vacate the teams and dismantle their treehouses.
Regardless of all of those obstacles, Tesla’s video additionally highlights lots of the issues Tesla did for its workers, together with reaching 500,000 drive models in August and 400,000 whole Mannequin Y models constructed at Giga Berlin by September. You may try Tesla’s full 2024 recap video from Giga Berlin under.
2024 – a yr for the books at Giga Berlin pic.twitter.com/6iIwMhkdwn
— Tesla Manufacturing (@gigafactories) December 31, 2024
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