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16 Feb, 12 tweets, 2 min read
🇩🇪 Giga Berlin

Interview with Brandenburg Economy Minister Steinbach

Interviewer
'Will the delayed approval of the overall project car factory permit jeopardize the production start that is targeted for July?'

Steinbach "So, not by the issuance of the final permit"

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This is breaking & huge news for Giga Berlin.

What the Brandenburg Minister Steinbach just said is that the final permit will NOT delay the production start of Giga Berlin in July

He continued that other factors out of his influence may cause a delay but not the permit process
Minister Steinbach continued about a potential delay of the Giga Berlin production start in July

"The maxim must be that an expected judicial challenge of this permit is rejected. The approval is valid and thus comes into effect"
Minister Steinbach:

"This is in the interest of the investor but also in the interest of the state of Brandenburg that this happens."
Minister Steinbach continued to talk about speculative delays of Giga Berlin by confirmed he does not know of any

"I don't want to exclude that there are delays in the production process but I have not been officially informed by Tesla."
Steinbach

"And if (a delay happens) then it's either in that we have had in the last year especially by the significantly prolonged hearing (..) a significant further delay of approvals, that was in the order of at least 2 months that it has cost in total."
Steinbach made clear and concluded about potential Giga Berlin delays

"I cannot judge at this point if Tesla will recover this time or if it will end up delaying the start of production but that is then primarily the cause of the delay and not the final approval."
The interviewer asked about the Battery plant for Giga Berlin

Brandenburg Minister Steinbach replied

"So we really don't know anything more than what Elon Musk has stated publicly and what was reported here in the press some time ago."
"Which assumes that this factory will have a capacity of 100kWh in its first stage. That you expect about 1k employees but these are not statements that come from an official approval process permit application we do not have but I quote what has found(..)the public in other ways
The Interviewer asked the Minister about the R&D
condition to get subsidies for the battery plant

Steinbach

"I know that the Brandenburg and Berlin Universities are positioning themselves in this regard, as is the ETS in Dresden from the Frauenhofer Gesellschaft and(..)"
Steinbach continued

("...) and I am curious to see with whom Tesla will finally enter into alliances in this regard."

Source, Audio Podcast in German
inforadio.de/programm/schem…
Apologize there a typo

It's of course not kWh but GWh! 😂

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