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."
Inertia of the infotainment system and response to touch inputs
Functional reliability of some assistance systems e.g. the
rear view camera, the parking aid
"Popping up" of many error messages not comprehensible by the drivers
VW Brand CEO Brandstätter on the question about Software issues of vehicles
(...) We have entered new territory. We are taking the bold, but also the difficult path. We have fundamentally redeveloped the latest generation of automobiles on a blank sheet of paper. (...)
VW CEO Brandstätter contined
"(..) That meant a steep learning curve for us especially in terms of the digital customer experience. We have now put that behind us. The biggest challenge was the new software architecture. We had to build up a massive amount of expertise for this"
VWs Chip shortage more severe than the public knows?
VW Purchasing Manager
"The hassle is huge. If the supplier didn't have a chip problem in their supply chain, we would get our ECUs."
VW continued
"If a supplier does not believe our figures & consults a forecasting institute that for whatever reason assesses the situation differently than our experts & therefore orders less in its input material chain, this could be an explanation for the current situation"
The VW purchasing Manager described the consequences
"At the moment, we have no chance of using alternatives for certain components from a purely technical point of view. In addition, we cannot retrofit certain electronic components."
"Instead of fudging its climate balance sheet with self-registrations, VW should quickly get out of the climate-damaging diesel and gasoline business."
"A particularly large number of ID.3s, VW's electric flagship, remained in the group's possession: The manufacturer and its dealers accounted for almost one in four registrations of the model (24 %) in Europe."
13,560 ID.3s never left VW but are declared sold
Greenpeace explained that In Germany, the share of own registrations was 35 %!
The VW Group sells more than 90% climate-damaging diesel & gas engines & has formed a pool with smaller manufacturers of EVs in order to be able to reduce the average emissions of newly sold cars
VW's increase of BEVs is driven by e.g. dealership vehicle registrations and only partly by customers who bought it spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unt…
According to the Greenpeace report VW has registered through Dealers in Europe
20.5 % of all BEVs & 21.7 % of all PHEVs
That's a total of just over 65,000 electrified cars they claim to have sold but didn't!
A scandal & another cheating of consumers, public, media & customers
Greenpeace states that VWs practice to register 65k electrified vehicles by dealers saved them €140m in fines
"Instead of fudging its climate balance sheet with self-registrations VW should quickly get out of the climate-damaging business with diesel & gasoline-powered cars"