what's up guys today we're going to be talking about Giga Berlin Tesla's Giga Factory in Europe
why the chose that location what's happening and what's the importance of having a Giga factory in
Europe we're gonna be talking all about that in this video today let's get right into it so let's
talk about why Tesla needs a factory in every continent now Elon has said this before so if
you know what Ilana said you probably already know the answer the reason is taxes import fees tariffs
and just the amount of time it actually takes for cars to go from a ship to Europe or even Asia
so Giga Shanghai is already operational that is producing cars at this instant and those cars are
actually being delivered to customers so there are many many issues that come up with manufacturing
different types of cars for different locations if you're doing all of them in one building
for example in Fremont California there Tesla's factory they make cars for the entire world that
means having the right sticker that means having the right language that means for UK and Australia
you need to have a right hand drive version of those cars that greatly increases the complexity
of the cars they actually have to make n1 factory now with having factories on each continent just
having one factor in each constant what they can do is spread that load out so instead of having
all their cars being produced from one factory in one location in the entire world what they
can do is a third of their cars can be produced in Shanghai only for the Asia market only for
China and the surrounding countries beside it and then you can have one for Europe now there is a
reason why Tesla chose Berlin it's specifically that exact location so this location is not
actually in Berlin if you look at the address it's actually just outside of Berlin so for example
like me I live in Brampton but I would say I'm from Toronto from talked to anyone pretty much
outside this country most people want to know where Brampton is a first date Toronto they'll
be like Oh Shona Canada right so that's why they say Giga Berlin it sounds cool to you not actually
said it sounds like a nightclub I was gonna leave it at that it's gonna be uh you know they're like
okay so he actually even said would you go for a car company who had a nightclub or a one that
didn't and I just thought that is absolutely absurd and the fact that Tessa can actually do
it you know would be like oh yeah let's just buy out this nightclub and just make it our own like
you know a Tesla nightclub or something I don't know you don't might actually do it who knows
having a factory on each continent means that the cars being produced in that specific factory or
localized pretty much all the cars are going to be selling in this factory are gonna be for mainland
Europe and then you got British the British Isles those are right-hand-drive variants so obviously
this factory is only doing right now they're only gonna start building phase one and then you also
have phase two three and four which is basically just a mirrored version and then like a mirrored
version again by next year in 2021 we're only gonna see about the quarter of the entire factory
and as I said they're gonna start with model y production first because that car is gonna be
a killer so here's a problem with Europe because they're located on the west coast of North America
not the East the ships that are leaving from California either have to go through the Panama
Canal if they want to get to Europe but yuan said that the Panama Canal gets blocked or really busy
sometimes so what they have to do what the ships have to do is literally go next to Antarctica and
then come right back up all the way to Europe that is such a long journey now that Tesla has
a factory in Shanghai what Tesla doesn't need to do is make model threes for the Asia market now
in China all the labels and whatnot have to be in Chinese whereas in America or even Europe actually
especially in Europe they have to be in different languages but in North America they don't they
have to be in English which is totally fine except Elon didn't state that in the beginning they had
this problem where descent model threes to China with English labels and they were stuck at the
port the Chinese port until those labels arrived and you could fit them together another problem
Tesla had for Europe this time was headlights they were American made headlights now American
regulations on headlights are very weak I would say Europe the headlights have to be kind of to a
higher standard nonetheless Altezza headlights are really good just saying but they just have to be
at a different higher standard so for example the low beam what we call in America is pretty high
it's considered almost like a high beam in Europe just because how far it's projecting onto the road
Europe puts regulations on that which makes sense because you don't want a blind drivers coming the
other way here in North America everyone has SUVs generally you don't get blinded if you're
traveling in a car well then you might want to get an SUV because chances are you'll be blind
especially half the people in North America travel with their high beams on like what the hell is
wrong with those people traveling with their high beams what because headlight or an issue the boat
or the ship couldn't actually leave the port so what you had to do was deliver headlights to the
port and then you had to have like people there to actually replace them so take out the American
version of the headlights put in the European version it was a complete mess these are all
some of the things that happened during model threes production help it was as Elon describes
it really really bad like literally help and it kind of makes sense if you just hear these
stories about how they actually got the ships and how they got model threes across the ocean it's
quite impressive that they were able to come out of that pretty much unharmed I would say because
you didn't really get to hear that unless Elon Masashi talked about it if you didn't talk about
it no one would know Tesla would be in this sort of production health sort of face they would just
think like oh they're having trouble but they wouldn't know that oh my gosh it's actually so
bad as it is so that is why it is really important to get a factory in Europe in Asia and in pretty
much every other continent where you don't have to travel across oceans complete complete disaster if
you do and now that I've went down pretty much long enough front to talk about that let's talk
about why they chose a location there's a really good reason BMW wanted to build a factory there
and auto factories so what that meant was BMW was they were actually pretty certain about it they
got all the permits they got all the paperwork done Ilan said they got about a year's worth of
paperwork done at that factory which meant when Tesla came along they didn't have to buy the line
and then do all the paperwork the way to here before they could actually start building they
could just select the line the specific line and then say okay we got the paperwork done and the
paperwork for an auto company for an auto factory to be specific because most if not
all the paperwork was done all you had to do was start with the actual construction sort of phase
or actually clearing the land and then you start construction and whatnot right that's a big reason
why they went for this exact location Tesla wants to double every 18 a month if they want to do that
they cannot wait a year just to get the paperwork done they gotta start building the factory now
start shipping model wizened threes from that factory by mid next year or even beginning next
year if they can possibly manage to do that but they've got a really act fast they can't wait
till next year just to get the paperwork done just so they can start breaking down the trees
or something and that's why I think this location is really good it's right off the autobahn do you
have a railway line and you know we might not think about it too much in in North America but
in Europe trains are big by big I mean they're public transport system in Europe is utterly
utterly amazing it's so good in fact you'll reach faster in some cases in a train rather than a car
whereas here try taking a train pretty much anywhere unless you're in the subway of a city
you're basically screwed that's a you're not gonna you're a you're not gonna enjoy the experience B
you're not gonna get there much quicker than a car anyways and what Ellen has actually said was
there's a train station right across the street or road and what not and what the city is gonna
do because you know it's not actually Berlin it's the outskirts of Berlin what that city is gonna do
is move that train station from across the street over so that means when people actually get off
the train they could literally just walk to the door of the gigafactory which means people who
work in the city or who live in the city people who live on the outskirts of the city can easily
reach there you got the Autobahn you also got the train so it's probably gonna be one of the
best places to actually Beach work it's not gonna be super hard and I think Tesla has nailed this
location especially if a manufacturer like BMW wanted to do it I think it has to be a pretty good
location thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this one now let me know it's down below if I've
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