After the speech Elon Musk delivered to Giga Berlin employees on the plant’s grand opening on March 22, the Tesla CEO took many questions from the viewers.

They coated varied matters, together with Tesla’s growth to different markets, new product launches, new battery tech and extra. 

One of many questions was concerning the new physique colours that will likely be accessible from Giga Berlin, seeing as Musk beforehand stated the plant would have “the world’s most superior paint store, with extra layers of beautiful colours that subtly change with curvature.“

The chief govt confirmed two new particular physique colours that will likely be produced at Tesla’s first European plant, purple and silver.

“We’ve to watch out with the whole variety of colours, however we’re going to make some particular colours right here, and it is about greater than the colour itself, however the layers of paint in an effort to get the dimensionality. We will make a really particular purple, which I believe in all probability plenty of a folks have seen. It is like 13 layers of paint. The layers give the paint dimensionality and make the colour look deep and complicated. After which we can even have a silver with not as many layers, I believe eight or one thing. It is nonetheless going to be actually particular, type of a liquid silver.”

Chances are you’ll keep in mind that in late 2021, three new colours appeared within the Tesla app: Deep Crimson Multicoat, Abyss Blue Multicoat, and Mercury Silver Metallic. On this context, it is extremely probably that the brand new colours Musk was referring to are Deep Crimson Multicoat and Mercury Silver Metallic.

The previous has been rumored to be the colour of Musk’s private Mannequin S, which has been noticed in 2020 within the govt car parking zone on the SpaceX headquarters sporting a hanging prototype shade.

Musk additionally stated that colours are a problem as a result of many elements should be considered when creating new paints, together with servicing. 

“With respect to colours, which colours are going to be accessible from this manufacturing unit, colours are all the time a problem as a result of when you concentrate on colours, you do not solely must manufacture it, however you additionally must service it and repair it for like 20 years. So you have obtained to consider man, ‘What are we going to place the service workforce via?'”

Throughout final yr’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg County Honest, Tesla previewed the ability’s paint store the place the brand new multilayered colours will likely be produced. The corporate confirmed a Mannequin Y prototype sporting a customized paint scheme consisting of a number of new colours.