I’m thinking that it’s about time to regularly monitor the construction progress at Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory, and to leverage the competitive spirit of the German psyche. We saw incredible construction speed at Gigafactory Shanghai (Giga Shanghai) once the structural build got going in spring 2019.
The Made-in-China Tesla Model Y is coming, and the Shanghai Tesla gigafactory is looking magical.
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Tesla’s Model Y factory shell at the Shanghai Gigafactory (Giga Shanghai) is now complete.
This is the 9th edition of CleanTechnica’s fairly new weekly news broadcast. This episode covers Tesla gigafactories in Shanghai, Nevada, and potentially Texas and Oklahoma, as well as Northvolt batteries, a Siemens Gamesa wind turbines, Synbio startup Octant, and much more. Have a look.
China’s EV boom is turning into a bust. Sales of “new energy vehicles” have been sliding for the past 10 months. In April, they showed a 43% drop from the same month in 2019.
Wednesday, May, 20, has seen the first Shanghai-made Tesla Model 3 Long Range vehicles delivered to customers, just 6 weeks after the vehicle’s order page was opened up in early April.
Construction of the battery factory and Model Y assembly line at Gigafactory 3 in China is proceeding rapidly with Model Y production expected to begin before the end of this year.
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Tesla has opened an online store on Alibaba’s online marketplace. On Thursday, Tesla’s Tmall store went online and it plans to start sales of Tesla car parts and related merch on April 21. Tmall is Alibaba’s B2C (Business to Customer) platform, a spinoff from Taobao, to sell brand-name goods. This is also Tesla’s first third-party store in China.
