An enormous fleet of Tesla Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 EVs seems to be on its strategy to North America, in response to footage from a latest drone flyover video that exhibits a minimum of 3,000 automobiles ready on the Shanghai South Port in Shanghai.
The video, which was printed on the Wu Wa YouTube channel yesterday, has an outline that claims the neatly parked automobiles have been sporting a “CA” mark, which presumably means Canada, the place Tesla has lately began importing automobiles from China, in a bid to prioritize American-made autos for the US market, the place each the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y are eligible for the $7,500 IRA tax credit score.
In Canada, EVs made anyplace on this planet can profit from country-wide and native incentives, so importing the most cost effective variant of the crossover from China is smart, because it doesn’t have an effect on the shoppers financially.
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At present, the Mannequin 3 RWD, Mannequin 3 Lengthy Vary AWD, Mannequin Y RWD, and Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary AWD qualify for the federal $5,000 (Canadian) iZEV incentive.
Curiously although, it seems like Tesla China isn’t allotting the manufacturing from the second half of 1 / 4 to the home market, because it normally does, and as an alternative cranking out export-bound Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 items.
As beforehand reported, the made-in-China Mannequin Y all-wheel drive Lengthy Vary bought in Canada is provided with a smaller, 79-kilowatt-hour battery pack made by LG, in comparison with the US-made Mannequin Y which has an 82-kWh pack from Panasonic. This ends in a shorter driving vary of 309 miles (497 kilometers, whereas the Fremont-made mannequin can journey as much as 330 miles (531 km) on a full cost.
Nonetheless, as identified by Drive Tesla Canada, the LG-made packs supply higher efficiency in chilly climate and degrade slower than the Panasonic-made items.
Rumors of a made-in-China Tesla Mannequin Y first surfaced in November 2022, however Elon Musk shortly denied the Reuters report that stated Shanghai-built EVs can be exported to the USA. Quick-forward to April of this yr, although, and the American EV model began transport rear-wheel drive crossovers to Canada, adopted by all-wheel drive Lengthy Vary items. The Mannequin 3 was added to the Canadian stock in Could.
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