Tesla has finished clearing trees at Giga Berlin site
Jameson Dow - Feb. 29th 2020
After about two total weeks of work, the forest of planted trees on Tesla's Giga Berlin site is now gone. Tesla finished “phase 1” of their forest clearance project this week, just before their early March deadline.
Tesla was in a hurry to finish clearing this forest before March because that's when the mating season begins for birds, after which trees are not allowed to be cut until birds have left their nests. If Tesla didn't finish by March, they'd have had to wait months to continue clearing, setting their project back by months. Tesla is on a tight deadline to get the gigafactory up and running by mid-2021, and a delay of several months would ruin that schedule.
And it seems they've pulled it off, and just in time.
In the wider shots, all of “phase 1” looks to have been cleared. The total area of phase 1 is about 90 hectares. Tesla has an additional 63 hectares to clear in “phase 1B,” which will happen at a later date.
Phase 1 corresponds to the area around the first of four buildings Tesla plans to build, and also employee parking and access roads around the building. Phase 1B covers access roads and a railyard for shipping cars. Other facilities, including a building for cell manufacturing, will be handled later.
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