The US electric car manufacturer Tesla is struggling with problems: Last week Tesla boss Elon Musk described the factories in Grünheide near Berlin and in Austin, Texas as “gigantic money incinerators”. The car factories are currently losing “billions of dollars”.
The specialist magazine “Teslamag” is now reporting that the plant in Grünheide is to be temporarily closed after only three months of operation. The reason for the step is that the production is too slow: The work processes are to be adapted over a period of two weeks. During the standstill, the production processes are to be changed in such a way that the bodies only spend 30 seconds at each production station. It’s currently up to three minutes. The two-shift operation is to be converted to three-shift operation.
Tesla plans to produce 500,000 Model Y cars in Germany each year. So far, however, the plant has only produced 1,000 cars per week.
Source: Nachrichten
