Thread by @jpr007

Tesla is currently finishing the inside of the factory in Grünheide

Heavy machinery is being set up in the paint shop and the press shop

The employees are working under high pressure, with shifts working around the clock on the construction site
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Brandenburg's Minister of Economics, Jörg Steinbach, is usually well informed about the progress on the construction site in Grünheide

The factory is "80 percent finished", he recently told the Tagesspiegel

And indeed, in the finished shell of the building, work is going on around the clock at a high pace

The US carmaker has had this intensity of construction approved by the state environmental agency :

- construction is allowed 24 hours a day in Grünheide

Tesla employees and the many subcontractors and suppliers are currently setting up heavy equipment in the production halls

- production machines in the press shop and paint shop

- and robots in final assembly

So things are moving forward in the factory itself

Musk wants more production depth in Grünheide

The factory is to produce more itself

- important plastic parts for the trim of the vehicles, for example, are to be manufactured in Grünheide itself

Musk has also called for a single production line instead of two at the site

There is still a lot of final finishing work to do in the surrounding area

For example, the rainwater basins have neither been approved nor built, the sewage pipes to Erkner are still being built, and the factory roads on the site have not yet been surfaced

All in all however, Musk has apparently been a little more relaxed lately about the progress in Grünheide

At least with politicians

- Minister of Economics Steinbach said that Musk used to call him more often when problems arose

And now ?

"Elon Musk rarely calls anymore"