In search of top staff, Tesla boss Elon Musk came to Germany on Thursday.
But what he saw there shouldn't please him.
Munich - The construction work by US electric car
maker Tesla
* for its factory in
Grünheide
* near
Berlin
is currently not progressing as planned.
The reason is a lack of approval from the
Brandenburg
State Environment Agency
for the application for early approval of the assembly of part of the paint shop and the clearing of 93 hectares of forest.
However, the Brandenburg state government currently sees no threat to the schedule.
The examination of the sixth application for an early start of construction is ongoing, as is the procedure for the final approval under the Federal Emissions Protection Act, said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of the Environment,
Frauke Zelt
, on Friday.
“Nothing comes to a standstill.” The motion was received before the hearing of critics in September.
The findings from this discussion should, however, still be taken into account.
Well-informed circles also said that the schedule still provides for production to start in early July 2021.
Only a few weeks ago the construction work was temporarily interrupted due to unpaid bills.
Tesla: The first cars are to roll off the production line in Grünheide in summer
From summer next year, electric cars will roll off the production line in Grünheide - it will be the first plant of its kind in Europe.
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) reported on Friday that
Tesla
had warned of a delay for the entire project and asked for a single permit for the paint shop.
The application documents indicate that the paint shop should be installed from October 1st.
The company did not initially comment.
When sending your resume, please describe a few of the hardest problems you solved & exactly how you solved them
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2020
Tesla
boss
Elon Musk
held job interviews on Friday to find top engineers, as he had previously announced.
"I'm only looking for problem solvers who do things with a high degree of urgency," he wrote on Twitter on Friday.
Musk had surprisingly arrived in Germany on Thursday - for the second time within a few months.
(dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen Digital editorial network.
