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With the full commissioning of the Shanghai plant in China, Tesla's future market with the greatest potential has been transferred to China, and its business in the region has become more and more active. Tesla officially announced a few days ago that he would set up a design studio and R & D center in China.

Tesla also issued a recruitment notice recruiting designers and other staff to expand the design studio and R & D center, a move that will be an important move for Tesla to localize and be close to Chinese users.

At the same time, Tesla also released a design drawing, which may be a SUV model developed for the Chinese market, which officials say is to create the original "Chinese style" Tesla and integrate it into Chinese art.

In addition to announcing the establishment of a design and development center in China, Tesla also changed the map data service provider to Baidu Maps to replace Tencent Map. Tesla said on the official Weibo and Wechat that Tesla's map data service will be changed to Baidu Maps, and OTA Air upgrade will soon launch more new entertainment features.

Baidu said that Baidu Maps has reached a cooperation with Tesla to provide Tesla with map data services in China. The domestic debut SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) API of Baidu Maps provides Tesla with map data services such as base map display, real-time road conditions, POI retrieval and so on.

Tesla Shanghai Super Factory took one year to build and put into production. At the end of last year, the domestic Model 3 was delivered to internal employees and officially delivered to consumers in January and July 2020. 'The Tesla Shanghai Super Factory has high hopes. Thanks to the support of the Shanghai municipal government and the work of the Shanghai team, we have jointly created an amazing speed in Shanghai, 'said CEO Musk at the Shanghai factory.

After the domestic Model 3 was included in the new energy subsidy, the price threshold was reduced to less than 300000 yuan. According to a survey conducted by the media, Tesla's sales store is currently hot, with a daily sales level of 1,000 vehicles.

According to Tesla's latest release, the output of the Shanghai super factory has reached 3000 vehicles a week, and 30 per cent of Model 3 parts have been localized. the localization rate of car body parts is expected to reach 80 per cent in July 2020 and 100 per cent by the end of 2020. This also means that with the gradual localization of Tesla's supply chain, it is possible to further reduce prices in the future.

Tesla domestically entered China, and in. The opening of business in the local market will be an important measure to improve the competitiveness of the local market. Tesla CEO Musk has previously said that China has gradually become the most important market for electric cars. He hopes that there will be more and more Chinese elements on Tesla, even a car that looks completely Chinese, and even does not rule out the possibility that these products will be launched in China.

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