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Tesla Giga Berlin cell manufacturing

Tesla · Grünheide · DE · Batteries and solar · supply security

In construction

Tesla Giga Berlin cell manufacturing is Tesla's batteries and solar project at Grünheide, Germany.

Why it matters

It is being built.

Where Tesla Giga Berlin cell manufacturing is

Tesla Giga Berlin cell manufacturing is at Grünheide works. Its position is Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, the works it stands on, rather than the installation itself. Also in frame: 4 sites using the same technology.

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filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

52.3972° N 13.7948° EGrünheide works

as of 2026-07-22

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction2026-07-22
  5. Operating
  • 2026-07-22In constructionTesla's own quarterly update lists, under Installed Annual Manufacturing Capacity — Battery Cell Manufacturing, the row 'Berlin 4680 - Construction'. The capacity column is a dash where Texas reads '>40 GWh Production'. Trade press through 2026 reported cells being made at Grünheide and a target rising from 8 GWh to 18 GWh; the company's own filing says construction and states no capacity, and under the standing press ruling the project's own sources decide. This is the first company statement read for the site, so the history starts here.source

Technology and measures

  • Gigafactory-scale cell manufacturingcommercialElectrode coating, cell assembly and formation run at gigawatt-hour scale on one site. It is the process node rather than a chemistry: the same lines make several chemistries, and what decides whether Europe has cells is whether the lines exist and yield, not which cathode runs through them.
  • Nickel-rich cellscommercialNickel-manganese-cobalt and nickel-cobalt-aluminium cathodes. Higher energy density than iron phosphate and the chemistry most European cell capacity was designed around, at the cost of depending on nickel and cobalt.

Funding

  • undisclosedIPCEI European Battery Innovation (EuBatIn) — German participation, project CARB-FREEwithdrawnAn IPCEI is cleared under Art. 107(3)(b) TFEU and the Commission's IPCEI communication, which is a state aid instrument and not a provision of any act this platform holds. Same case as germany-northvolt-drei.NO AMOUNT IS RECORDED BECAUSE NO SOURCE READ HERE STATES ONE. The Commission's decision gives €2.9 billion across twelve Member States and 42 participants and says the split per participant follows in the non-confidential decision; Brandenburg's releases state no figure; Tesla's 10-K states none. The €1.14 billion in circulation is trade and wire press and is not admitted. It would not enter a total in any case — this row is withdrawn and therefore FUNDING_EXCLUDED.sourcesourcesourcesourcesource

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