After a long back and forth, the time will soon come: The start of production in Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide can’t be long in coming. This is indicated by internal documents, according to which delivery should start soon – if it weren’t for a well-known obstacle.

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Tesla: Model Y from Germany will be available to customers in March

In Grünheide all signs point to go. The Tesla Gigafactory could start operating at practically any time these days and with it the Start manufacturing Tesla vehicles from Germany. And you probably have to, at least if you want to stick to your own goals.

According to a letter to the employees Delivery of the Model Y Performance from Grünheide near Berlin will begin in March (Source: Teslamag). It should be noted: With the delivery, construction has to take place beforehand, even if Tesla assembles its e-cars unrivaled quickly. The email found its way to the public through a German Tesla fan forum.

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Specifically, it says about Model Y: “The Performance model from Berlin can now also be ordered and will probably reach us from March.” Changes in the online configurator at Tesla based. The system initially showed “early 2022” as the delivery date, now it’s getting more specific: March applies to the Model Y in black or white, other colors should be available in May.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will certainly be back in Grünheide for the start of production. Where he occasionally has his fingers in the pie:

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Tesla also confirmed in the message slightly modified configurations of the Model Y and the Model 3. With the latter, a more powerful processor will be used in the future, but this will reduce the range.

Only one well-known problem is still standing in the way of the imminent start of production: the final one Authorities have yet to approve Tesla’s new factory. The entire factory is still based on preliminary partial approvals. According to the Brandenburg state government, one is in the final phase, but one does not name an event horizon.