Elon Musk’s two-fold Germany visit

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk will visit Germany this week to check out progress at Giga Berlin and CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine work.

Musk has tweeted he will be going to Germany to see Giga Berlin, due to begin EV production in July 2021, and also to discuss a potential ribonucleic acid (RNA) factory with biopharmaceutical company CureVac in Tübingen.

Tesla and CureVac agreed to a partnership in July, allowing both to create portable molecular RNA printers which could help produce a COVID-19 vaccine.

Musk has donated hundreds of ventilators to hospitals and Tesla began developing its own breathing machines by using parts from its EVs, Teslarati

reports.

Meanwhile, Tesla’s value has reached nearly $US$420 billion, giving it 41% of the total market cap among 12 of the world’s biggest automotive manufacturers and expected to easily reach 500,000 EV deliveries in 2020.

Speculation is rife around what Tesla will reveal at its Battery Day and annual stockholder’s meeting on September 22.