Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. (credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pestoverde/8763130149/)
On Tuesday morning Tesla announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire German firm Grohmann Engineering with the intent to more fully automate its factories and boost production of Teslas, especially the anticipated Model 3.
The resulting company will be called Tesla Grohmann Automation and the company will form the basis for a new headquarters called Tesla Advanced Automation Germany. In a blog post, Tesla noted that it hopes to build more Advanced Automation centers around the world.
The acquisition will keep Grohmann founder and CEO Klaus Grohmann in charge at the engineering firm’s Prüm, Germany site. According to Tesla, “several critical elements of Tesla’s automated manufacturing systems will be designed and produced in Prüm to help make our factories the most advanced in the world…we believe the result will yield exponential improvements in the speed and quality of production, while substantially reducing the capital expenditures required per vehicle.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Elon Musk eyes “alien dreadnought” automated factory with engineering firm deal