Elon Musk wants to accelerate car production in Germany with the Gigafactory.
Grünheide A spooky noise regularly chases through the factory buildings in Grünheide. It’s the whistle of the press shop, a massive machine as tall as a three-story house, with white paneling and a red frame.
Even the press is in Tesla’s corporate colors. And it is built with German expertise from suppliers such as Wefa, Schuler or Hirschvogel. The 50-ton pressing tools form body parts with a pressure of 2,500 tons in twenty-second cycles.
Similar presses are also in other car factories. But Tesla wants to use them to manufacture a component that other manufacturers do not use. In addition to parts such as doors or tailgates, the press shop will soon also be forming battery boxes. These are the containers for the new, so-called 4680 lithium battery cells.
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