Tesla Giga Shanghai manufacturing facility, which occurs to be the world’s largest battery-electric automotive manufacturing web site, just lately achieved one other main milestone.
Based on the Chinese language media (by way of CnEVPost), the plant has just lately produced its one millionth Tesla Mannequin Y.
Under, we connected a tweet with a photograph of the jubilee automotive (July 12, 2023), surrounded by the workforce, celebrating this massive achievement.
Let’s recall that the manufacturing and deliveries of the Made-in-China (MIC) Tesla Mannequin Y began in January 2021.
Tesla produces in Shanghai additionally the Mannequin 3 (since late 2019), and a fast take a look at the cumulative wholesale shipments of all MIC Mannequin 3/Mannequin Y (1.8 million) and the MIC Mannequin Y cumulative manufacturing, provides us a sign that the MIC Mannequin 3 is now at round 800,000 items.
The Mannequin Y has been Tesla’s best-selling electrical mannequin for fairly a while now and in China, it already has a noticeable benefit over the Mannequin 3, regardless of manufacturing beginning a 12 months later.
Information, tracked by the China Passenger Automotive Affiliation (CPCA), signifies that the Tesla Giga Shanghai produced about two instances as many Mannequin Ys as Mannequin 3s within the first half of 2023 – respectively virtually 160,000 and over 316,000.
Let’s additionally notice that, cumulatively, Tesla produced greater than 4.5 million electrical vehicles – 1.8 million in China and a couple of.7 million in different factories (principally in Fremont, California, with some share of Giga Berlin and Giga Texas).
One other factor that we will see within the stats is that the cumulative quantity of the Mannequin 3/Mannequin Y is approaching 4 million (as of the tip of June), so the Chinese language manufacturing is liable for virtually half of the pair’s complete quantity.
The Tesla Giga Shanghai continues to be rising its manufacturing, though the expansion price is slowing down. In June, the wholesale shipments amounted to some 93,680 (up 19 p.c year-over-year), together with 74,212 retail gross sales in China (down 5 p.c year-over-year), and 19,468 items exported (up 1,911 p.c year-over-year).
To date this 12 months, the wholesale shipments of MIC Mannequin 3/Mannequin Y amounted to some 476,539 (up 62 p.c year-over-year), together with 294,105 retail gross sales in China (up 49 p.c year-over-year), and 182,434 items exported (up 88 p.c year-over-year).
