Tesla plans to hire an additional 1,000 workers for its plant outside Berlin, the US carmaker said on Thursday, as it seeks to ramp up production at its only European facility.
Tesla, which is owned by US tech magnate Elon Musk, said it plans to increase vehicle production at the German plant to 7,500 per week from October.
The planned new hires come on top of 1,000 additional staff announced back in April, who were to be hired by the end of June to ramp up production at the plant by a fifth to around 6,000 vehicles per week, with the company citing a rise in demand.
In May, Tesla also announced plans to recruit more than 1,500 new employees for battery cell production in Germany, after Musk had vowed back in 2020 to turn the Grünheide plant, dubbed the Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory, into the world’s largest battery factory.
Tesla opened the plant around four years ago and initially aimed to produce 500,000 cars a year.
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