BREAKING! Tesla Giga Berlin Produces 1 Model Y Every 150 Seconds

A video, released hours ago, shows that Tesla Giga Berlin is producing Model Y electric vehicles every 150 seconds. This translates into 1000 vehicles a week at Giga Berlin.

On the site for the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin, construction is now being carried out twice: In several places there, workers were still building roads or completing the square battery building on Wednesday. At the same time, however, Model Y was produced in the long main building of the Gigafactory, as can be seen from a drone video. Observer @tobilindh timed how much time passed before one of these rolled out the next one from the factory. It was about two and a half minutes, which would mean that extrapolated to 1000 Model Y per week.

New Model Y rolling out of Tesla Giga Berlin.

With the Delivery Day for the handover of the first 30 Model Y from Grünheide last week, the Tesla factory officially started operations. She had previously produced hundreds of electric cars on a test basis, but they were not allowed to be sold. But with the regular start, the work there is far from over. The start of production is relatively easy, explained Tesla CEO Elon Musk last October at a giga festival for fans and the local population, the subsequent ramp-up was difficult.

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[macros]

Don't confuse stamping with injection casting from giga press. It's called a press but it's actually an injection casting machine. The press is for keeping it closed while injection casting.

[philipwinkelhorst]

Stamping a body panel goes with a (giga)press. We call it stamping but it is forming and cutting a peace of plate steel. But metal can't be stampped in form in one stamp, but it takes severals all altering the plate a bit. The form will be stampped in a few steps. In this new tesla gigaberlin drone video you see the drone flying through the stammping machines. From plate to bodypaneel takes a few stamping presses and the whole cycle will take only 20 seconds. I hope you all see that a gigapress isnot the same as a gigacasting machine. Both different machines for different part of the cars.

[darbyelliott]

Stamping (metal) goes very fast. Then they stop it, put in a new die, then continue with another part. They create a huge surplus of framing parts in a warehouse, which will feed the assembly lines. You actually show a picture of the door frames in the warehouse in your video. Those are waiting in the warehouse to be fed into the assembly line.

[jimmywang]

Tesla should give free model Y to each employee.. they can write it off as expenses anyways but it would great moral to work for Tesla or look at it as bonus

[markw]

Why are you assuming only one 8 hour shift? I would think they will ramp up to 24/7 operations fairly quickly.

[Snouser]

Your math is off a little
Model Y/3 mins = 20/hr
20 x 12 hour work day = 240/day
240 x 7 days a week = 1680 cars/week

[wjl]

FYI, TSLA bull Troy Teslike, for one, noticed that one Tesla Model 3 popped out of the Tesla Giga Shanghai factory every 44.3 seconds

[mstrnobody]

Stamping body parts include doors, the liftgate, the hood and the bodyside.

[peterwilliamson]

It all seems well in hand, but was their water issue resolved?

[johnadair]

"Test vehicles" are probably crash test vehicles. I would assume that you won't find them in any showrooms.

[sanse]

Any idea about when the Long Range Model Y will start been produced at GigaBerlin?

[thbiosphere]

30 cars per hour times 24 hours =700 per day maybe July?

[zilogfan]

a 250% rate from this crude 150 sec rate to 60 sec rate will be full 500k production. It just needs to be held for 6 days a week 3 shifts and one shift on sun. Not a small task though of course.

[klauszinser]

2 min 30 sec. -> A shift has 440 mins -> 176 vehicles/shift. Suppose 2 shifts and 6 days/week.
2 x 6 x 176 = 2112 vehicles per week.
I think thats realistic end of April 2022. Or even more.
Work on Sunday is expensive in Germany.

[tigranohanyan]

One car in 150 sec is 180 000 per year if they work 3 shifts included Saturday and Sunday. Its too low. They need to make One car per 50 second in order to make about 500 000 per year. Even that is too low. With huge Idra Italian die cast casting machine they should be able to go 2 000 000 million per year. Which is about 11 cars in 150 second or One car in 13 second.

[mortenthryse]

good job - go on being first on all tesla news. go torque!!!! ;).

[EinzigfreierName]

It's really impossible to draw much conclusion from these numbers. Maybe they produce a car every 150 seconds for half an hour and then the production line needs to be stopped for 2 hrs to fix or adjust something. We'll have to wait a few weeks or even months and see how much cars really have left the factory in total. And even after everythins is running smoothly, there is the question of resources that all automakers are facing at the moment.

[Teslawalter]

Believe it or not, this factory is capable of 1 every 100 seconds. See Shanghai.

[tigranohanyan]

They need to make One car per 13 second for 2 000 000 ( two million) car per year. ( with Idra die casting machines). It will be the end of Toyota and Volkswagen . LOL

[JJSmith]

Tesla can give the test models to some movie company to use in action movies.