After stopping production for 23 days, the automatic vehicle production line of Tesla Shanghai Super factory resumed high-speed operation.
According to the information released by Tesla, more than 8000 people came to work on the day of resumption, and the batteries and motor modules in the factory are being produced at full speed. Song Gang, senior director of production and manufacturing of Tesla Shanghai Super factory, told the media that many Tesla parts suppliers in Shanghai have also begun to resume production.
As the world’s most recognized new energy vehicle enterprise with its own traffic, from industry experts to ordinary netizens, Tesla’s every move is enough to make people have hot discussion.
After all, in less than a month, first the opening of gigaberlin, the first factory in Europe, and then the appearance of Texas super factory with pure electric pickup truck cybertruck, Tesla has successfully occupied the C position in the global financial and automotive circles.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, naturally became a big star in the Internet. After all, the power of incarnating magic dancers in the Berlin factory hasn’t stopped. They’re going to fly back to Texas to be cowboys. Netizens all over the world have a lot of melon material.
With the opening of the new factory, musk became popular on the Internet again/ Visual China
However, compared with musk playing super change in front of the camera, more people are concerned about who owns Tesla’s second super factory in Asia - or which city in China will set up a new account for Tesla’s second factory?
How many cities want Tesla
China is Tesla’s fastest growing region and Tesla’s second largest market. Just like this, when musk threw out the news that “the world’s fifth super factory will be located this year” at the Tesla earnings conference call in January this year, people speculated that this super factory “has a high probability of landing in China”.
In February this year, the news of “Tesla plant 2 settled in Shenyang” spread all over the network and attracted public attention. Although the rumor was later refuted by Tesla, people’s thinking was particularly active on social media, and they speculated which city would become Tesla’s next stop: Tesla seems to only deny building a second factory in Shenyang, not in China?
Although Tesla’s “affinity” with Shenyang has been refuted, it can not stop people’s infinite imagination/ Graphic insect creativity
Up to now, the answer in the minds of motorists and the public is that in addition to the expansion of the second plant in Shanghai, Tesla may enter 9 cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi’an, Hefei, Wuhan, Shenyang and Yibin.
Guangzhou Nansha is the place with the highest voice. After all, in addition to ports, land and labor, Nansha formulated the “t plan” to attract Tesla when Tesla selected the site of its first factory in China.
Wuhan has successively participated in the settlement and operation of a number of new energy vehicle projects such as Xiaopeng, Dongfeng Honda new energy, Dongfeng high-end new energy off-road vehicle, and now of course it will be full of action. During the two sessions this year, a number of members of the CPPCC National Committee in Hubei Province submitted a joint proposal to “promote the settlement of Tesla No. 2 factory in Wuhan City Circle”.
Those cities that are not on the list are also gearing up to pursue Tesla.
Tianjin netizen Mr. Liu left a message on the government website and suggested that Tianjin “take the initiative to negotiate Tesla and provide convenient conditions for its settlement”. The Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce replied, “keep in close contact with Tesla Motors and actively negotiate”.
Like a big catfish, Tesla has become the object of “catching” among major cities.
Business experience of “Tesla plant 2” and musk
In the face of surging speculation from the outside world, Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla’s foreign affairs, specially gave warm tips on her microblog:
“Recently, I received many media inquiries about the second factory, but I can’t reply one by one. Please tell us that the information on the site selection of Tesla’s second factory on the Internet is not true.”
After all, everyone knows the benign benefits of Tesla’s “catfish”. Tesla’s financial report data show that in 2021, the annual delivery volume of Shanghai Super factory reached 484130, which is almost equal to the annual delivery volume of 499647 Tesla in the world the previous year.
It is worth mentioning that 150000 of the 484000 Tesla produced from the Shanghai Super factory were packed into the containers of Shanghai port and exported to Japan, South Korea and Europe by 10000 ton cargo ships.
Tesla’s super factory in Shanghai/ Visual China
The output of a Shanghai factory accounted for nearly half of Tesla’s global production capacity in that year, making Tesla the leader in the pure electricity segment in 2021; Even if plug-in hybrid is included, Tesla ranks first in the new energy vehicle market.
The large increase in production capacity has also expanded Tesla’s production desire. Tesla not only plans to expand the existing Shanghai Super factory, but also set a flag at Tesla’s annual general meeting in October 2021 - Tesla plans to achieve the goal of annual sales of 20 million vehicles by 2030 and win 20% of the global auto market. At present, Toyota and Volkswagen are the only two old car companies in the world that can stably sit in the position of tens of millions of annual sales.
This flag is not easy to do - to achieve the ambitious goal of annual sales of 20 million vehicles means that Tesla must be prepared to expand production capacity in advance. But the current reality is that Tesla’s production capacity has not kept up with the popularity of the market. Even if several super factories are working overtime to expand production capacity, it is still far from enough.
Expanding Tesla’s production capacity is Musk’s most urgent priority/ Visual China
The Berlin super factory opened last month has experienced twists and turns. Before Tesla’s next super factory is officially opened, the Shanghai factory still needs to be a “shoulder” for a long time.
Of course, the Shanghai factory can afford it. It is reported that in 2021, the output value of new energy vehicles in Shanghai exceeded 160 billion yuan, and Tesla Shanghai factory contributed more than 150 billion yuan, which has plated a layer of gold on Shanghai’s new energy vehicle industry.
In the face of this promising and attractive “economic account”, any powerful and ambitious automobile industry city can not be unmoved.
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