Giga 4 Berlin — The Environmental Impact Assessment!Here’s the landing page for the German site:
https://www.uvp-verbund.de/trefferanzeige?docuuid=94AFADF0-92F1-44EA-AA54-E1CD7C0FF6AD“Errichtung und Betrieb einer Anlage für den Bau und die Montage von Elektrofahrzeugen mit einer Kapazität von jeweils 100.000 Stück oder mehr je Jahr am Standort 15537 Grünheide (Mark) - Reg.-Nr.: G07819
ZULETZT GEÄNDERT: 03.01.2020”
From the text on that page (via Google Translate):
“Construction and operation of a plant for the construction and assembly of electric vehicles with a capacity of 100,000 pieces or more each year at the 15537 Grünheide (Mark) location - registration no .: G07819
LAST CHANGED: 01/03/2020”
General project description
The project essentially includes the construction and operation of a system for the construction and assembly of models 3 and Y as well as future models with an estimated annual production of 500,000 electric vehicles. The plant will contain the following production steps: press shop, foundry, body shop, paint shop, seat production, plastic production, battery production, drive production and final assembly. In addition, a wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 252 m3 / h, a central supply building, a delivery and delivery area and an employee parking lot are planned. The project affects the forest.
Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for July 2021.
This fits with Musk’s comment that he expects trial production to begin in 12-18 months after site work is started.
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The report PDFs (in German) are at the bottom of the page— look for the largest ones.
“UVP - Bericht für das Vorhaben” is “EIA Report for the Project”
• UVP - Bericht Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg 12.2 MB (246 pages!)
Emission forecast air pollutants and odor:
• Immissionsprognose Luftschadstoffe und Geruch Tesla Manufac.pdf 15.8 MB (150 pages)
The summary of the air pollution emissions forecast declares that no harmful environmental effects are anticipated for the general public or neighborhood:
…for all air pollutants (dust, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and hexamethyl diisocyanate) there is an irrelevant additional load at all assessment points. The forecast additional odor pollution from the planned facility is <0.079 relative frequency of odor hours per year in the residential area and <0.052 relative frequency of odor hours per year in the commercial area. The GIRL immission values are observed for both the residential area (0, 10) and the commercial area (0, 15). If the plant is operated properly, taking into account the conditions for the processing period described in the expert opinion, it can be assumed that the air pollutant emissions and odor emanating from the plant cannot cause harmful environmental effects for the general public and the neighborhood…
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Here’s an English (Google) translation of the EIA Report — text only! (Maps, etc, are only in the German version.)
~232 pages.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-LJowypD7Dbm6aZHqaNFLqYk6JGyW9ru/viewOverall, as noted previously, effects are expected to be Low, except Moderate during construction:
Overall, the impact is mostly low due to the intended use operation on the protected goods are expected. The most far-reaching effects go accompanied by forest conversion during the construction. With these effects was too count, since the forest area already in 2001 for the establishment of a plant for vehicle manufacturing position was designated as an industrial area.
- Page 184 or thereabouts.
H/t:
https://twitter.com/gf4tesla/status/1216843463628554242 And:
https://twitter.com/gigafactory_4/status/1213977209532227594
