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The factory was completed and put into production less than a year after construction began. Tesla Shanghai Super Factory is not only the first car manufacturing plant wholly owned by a foreign carmaker, but will also become one of the factories with the fastest infrastructure. A few days ago, some media received internal information that Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory will be put into full production on October 14 and will achieve its target of producing 3000 Model 3 electric vehicles a week by the end of the year.

On January 7, 2019, Tesla officially announced the opening ceremony of the Shanghai super factory. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, was present at the scene. The first model to be put into production after the completion of the factory is the Model 3 electric car. On August 7, 2019, seven months later, Tesla officially announced that "the construction of the Shanghai super factory has been going smoothly. It has been only seven months since the start of construction and is expected to start production by the end of 2019."

From the completion of the factory construction, to the installation of electric car production line equipment, and then to the off-line of the body-in-white, the construction of Tesla's Shanghai super factory is progressing rapidly, and many netizens lamented that this is the strength of the "infrastructure madman". CEO Musk said: this is the fastest building I have ever seen.

In response to the news that it was reported to start production next month, Tesla kept strictly confidential information such as the progress of the factory, and responded, "the official news has not yet been released, and everything shall prevail with the official news." Tesla also said, "We look forward to starting production in China by the end of this year." According to the production schedule of the Shanghai Super Factory, we will continue to strive to achieve the global production target of more than 500000 Tesla electric vehicles in the 12 months to June 30, 2020. "

According to the news exposed on the net, Tesla Shanghai Super Factory has the conditions for mass production, the first car in white is offline on September 26th, and the stamping workshop, painting workshop and final assembly workshop have the production capacity.

Tesla announced the price and delivery information of the domestic version of Model 3 on May 31 this year. The standard upgrade version of Model 3 produced by Shanghai Super Factory in China has 460km mileage, 0-100km/h acceleration time of 5.6s, top speed of 225km/h per hour, and the price is 328000 yuan. the earliest delivery time for the first batch of models is half a year (that is, the end of 2019), or 10 months at the latest.

It is worth noting that the assembly production line was completed in advance, and the vehicles put into production were imported into China in the form of CKD for assembly and production. In the initial stage, about 3000 Model 3 electric vehicles were produced per week.

The Shanghai Super Factory is Tesla's second super factory in the world, and it is the first electric car factory in China wholly owned by a foreign carmaker.

According to Tesla's plan, the Shanghai super factory will integrate R & D, manufacturing and sales functions. After 2-3 years of construction, the Shanghai super factory is expected to achieve an annual capacity of 500000 pure electric vehicles, including Model 3 and Model Y.

In August this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a catalogue of new energy vehicles exempted from vehicle purchase tax (the 26th batch). Tesla's 11 models were all included in the catalogue, which reduced the price of Tesla again, saving up to nearly 100000 yuan, and the starting price of the entry-level Model 3 model in China was adjusted to 363900 yuan. With more policy support in the future, coupled with localization to control costs, the starting price of Tesla is expected to decline further.

China is Tesla's second largest market in the world. Mr Musk has said that Tesla's future global headquarters should be in China. He also 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-style, and even does not rule out the possibility that these products will be launched in China.

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