The National Passenger Car Market Information Association (hereinafter referred to as: Passenger Association) released the wholesale sales data of China's new energy passenger car manufacturers in May on the 5th, showing that Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory delivered a total of 77,695 vehicles in May, a year-on-year increase 142%.
Recently, Tesla CEO Musk visited China again after three years, releasing a signal: the Chinese market is very important in Tesla's global system. When Musk visited Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory on the evening of May 31, he said that the Shanghai Gigafactory is not only one of the most productive factories in the world, but also one of the best quality cars in the world.
In July 2018, the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory signed a contract and landed. Six months later, the project officially started construction. At the end of 2019, the first batch of Model 3 made in China was delivered. The whole world witnessed the "Shanghai Speed".
On August 15, 2022, Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory once again achieved an important milestone-the one millionth vehicle rolled off the production line. It took less than 3 years from the delivery of the first Chinese-made model to the achievement of this milestone , which is also a "phenomenal" record in the history of the global auto industry. The Texas Gigafactory in the United States and the Berlin Gigafactory, which will be put into operation in 2022, are also "replicating" the production efficiency and industrial impact of the Shanghai Gigafactory on a global scale.
The reporter learned from Tesla China that the localization rate of the industrial chain of Shanghai Gigafactory has exceeded 95%, and 99.99% of the employees are Chinese. At the same time, the introduction of Tesla in Shanghai has also promoted the upgrading and innovation of Shanghai and its surrounding areas, and even the entire Chinese auto industry chain.
At present, Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory has formed a full range of new energy auto parts such as batteries, automotive chips, automatic driving systems, automotive interiors, and precision machining in Shanghai, Suzhou, Ningbo, Nantong and other Yangtze River Delta regions. The ecological chain has also opened up the national automobile industry chain market, forming a complete "safe, independent, and controllable" industrial ecology.