Tesla has shared a brand new recap video for its car manufacturing facility in Germany, recalling most of the website’s high highlights for the yr—in addition to a number 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 most of the challenges the group 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 pressured to halt manufacturing because of armed conflicts within the Crimson 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 pressured to halt manufacturing at Giga Berlin as soon as once more. This time, the pause was because of an arson assault on the manufacturing facility’s predominant energy substation, with the environmental activist group Vulcan Group claiming duty for the assault.
The group went on to say that it was aiming to cease manufacturing on the manufacturing facility, because of environmental points with Tesla general, Elon Musk, and what it referred to as “technofascism.” After a bit of greater than per 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 deal with their public relations efforts.
In Could, activists additionally tried to storm Giga Berlin and get inside, inflicting accidents of at the least one protestor and three law enforcement officials. 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 thrice as many bushes because it eliminated, the protestors remained lively within the space up by means of final month, when police lastly managed to vacate the teams and dismantle their treehouses.
Regardless of all of those limitations, Tesla’s video additionally highlights most of the issues Tesla did for its workers, together with reaching 500,000 drive items in August and 400,000 whole Mannequin Y items constructed at Giga Berlin by September. You’ll be able to try Tesla’s full 2024 recap video from Giga Berlin beneath.
2024 – a yr for the books at Giga Berlin pic.twitter.com/6iIwMhkdwn
— Tesla Manufacturing (@gigafactories) December 31, 2024
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