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Tesla claims that there has never been any media advertising, but even so, the American electric car company is still the focus of attention. Tesla's largest project this year was located in Shanghai, China, and construction officially began at the beginning of the year. CEO Musk plans to complete the production of Tesla's Shanghai plant in less than a year.

Some media once again came to the site of Tesla Super Factory in Shanghai Pudong Lingang Industrial Zone to see the extent to which this foreign-funded factory, which has been used for household use for less than five months, has been built.

From the aerial picture, the main building has been formed, and the steel structure construction project of the factory building is coming to an end. Some construction workers also said that the factory is expected to be completed by the end of July this year.

Looking back at the start-up ceremony of Tesla's Shanghai factory at the beginning of the year, the surrounding area was still barren, and the hoisting of the steel roof grid only began in mid-March.

According to Tesla's plan, the Shanghai plant will carry out ground hardening treatment in June, followed by pipeline communications, equipment deployment, equipment commissioning and trial production. If there are no problems, trial production could start as early as September. This statement is basically in line with Musk's claim that it will be completed this summer, and production of the Model 3 model will begin at the end of the year.

The construction speed of Tesla's Shanghai factory is particularly fast, and it has sprung up from the flat land in just over a hundred days. This is the largest foreign investment in manufacturing in Shanghai in history, and it is also the first wholly foreign-owned new energy vehicle company to land after the deregulation of foreign equity ratio in China's new energy vehicle sector. From the signing of the contract in July 2018 and the acquisition of land to the official start of construction in January 2019, Tesla only took six months and received the attention of the government. Prime Minister Li Keqiang personally met Musk, and the construction of the factory also reflected the speed of Shanghai.

At present, Tesla has begun to recruit relevant teams from the factory. Not long ago, Tesla posted a recruitment message for the "factory firmware research and development team" on the official recruitment platform, requiring the deployment of an automobile firmware intelligent system in a super factory to empower the intelligent manufacturing of the super factory. Candidates are required to have some insight into the planning and design of intelligent manufacturing plants, and to be familiar with the concept of lean production.

(effect picture of Shanghai factory)

Tesla Shanghai Super Factory occupies an area of more than 860000 square meters. when the first phase of the project is completed, it will produce models including Model 3 and Model Y, with a target annual production of 250000 pure electric vehicles, as well as batteries. In the follow-up construction process, the overall production capacity of the plant can be increased to 500000 vehicles per year.

Tesla set up a factory in Shanghai, and local financial institutions also provided Tesla with 3.5 billion yuan in debt financing. Tesla confirmed earlier that it had reached an agreement with several banks, including China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, to obtain a loan of US $521 million (about 3.5 billion yuan) to build an automobile and battery factory in Shanghai, China, and quickly reach a production of Model 3 cars.

According to the current progress, Model 3 will be assembled by the end of the year, which is a terrible speed! Some analysts believe that, "due to Tesla's good brand effect and marketing ability, if, according to the previous plan, the annual production capacity of the Shanghai factory can reach 500000 vehicles in the future, it will intensify the competitive pressure on the entire domestic new energy vehicle market." it has a great impact on independent brands. "

But there is another incident, don't forget! On April 21, a Tesla burst into flames in a garage in Shanghai, and the whole process was recorded on surveillance video, drawing attention from all walks of life to the safety of electric vehicles. At the same time, a fire broke out in Tesla Model S in an underground garage in Hong Kong on May 12. the vehicle was not in a state of charging at the time of the accident and had just been overcharged before the incident. At present, the exact cause of the Tesla fire in China has not yet been officially announced.

Data show that Tesla delivered 63000 new cars worldwide in the first quarter of this year, losing 668 million US dollars (about 4.616 billion yuan). The realization of localized production and large-scale delivery in the Chinese market in the future is crucial to Tesla's profit goal.

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