17.02.2030 - Sunday    11:34PM    George Rail
                                                                                                          

Electric East

World of electric vehicles is growing increasingly fast, much faster than anyone would expect 10 years ago. Over nearly 30 years the biggest electric car producer Tesla have improved world communication with it's vehicles. There are no gas vehicles sold since nearly 3 years.

Second generation of Tesla Roadster produced since 2020
Second generation of Tesla Roadster produced since 2020

One of Elon Musk's companies-children is well known for it's incredibly huge 'Gigafactories'. Tesla CEO claims, that it's better to have a couple of huge factories than dozens of smaller ones. The environment impact is significantly smaller just as the costs.

In today's episode of WVFRM - Podcast created by Marques Keith Brownlee - Popular Tech YouTuber and Minister of Technology - there was a talk about electric motoring with Tesla CEO - Elon Musk, Volvo CEO - Elin Håkansson and Mitsubishi CEO - Hideo Kojima. At certain part Elon Musk has mentioned his plans about deep expansion of Tesla Supercharger network and building another Tesla Gigafactory in Eastern Europe.

Mass spread of Tesla Superchargers will include following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Hungary, Transnistria, Moldavia, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania and BiH. Musk says they're going to start in November 2030 and all planned Superchargers should be done within Q2 of 2031.

The most likely future construction place
The most likely future construction place

What about the new Gigafactory? Musk didn't want to throw any specific info, we don't know how big is the factory going to be and when would it be done. Minutes after publication of WVFRM epizod Musk shared on Tesla website some mysterious dark image, which seemed and turned to be a puzzle. Massive reddit storm at r/elonmusk unveiled the hidden message saying "Jebać Tczew, budujemy fabrykę w Malborku". Now it's almost 100% sure, that new Tesla Gigafactory will be built in Malbork, middle city (population of 50k) in the Pomorskie Voivodeship ship in Poland.

Source: LO2 Malbork