Across the Pacific in China, Tesla is hosting exclusive track events for owners, parties at its showrooms, and even a custom line of Chinese Tesla stickers for popular social media apps.
In response to the ongoing trade war with the US, China has decided to double the size of the Free Trade Zone south of Shanghai to attract more foreign investment.
Electric cars use cobalt and rare earth metals. The Chinese are hording them and may refuse to sell them to the US. Therefore we the US should immediately ban the sale of electric cars in the name of national security? Got all that?
Welcome to the next issue of China × Cleantech, February 2019 edition. A new year has come and the news keeps flowing. For our full China × Cleantech history, stroll over to the “Future Trends” section of our website.
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Elon is in Shanghai this week for the groundbreaking ceremony at the new Gigafactory 3. He says the facility should being producing Model 3s for Chinese customers by the end of this year, and that the next Tesla CEO could come from China.
Tesla has applied for an exemption from the tariffs imposed by the Trump maladministration on the computer that is the “brain” of the Model 3, saying it cannot find another supplier without adding significantly to its costs and delaying production.
Tesla is cutting prices in China on its Model X and Model S in anticipation of the Chinese tariff dropping to 15% on January 1.
Good news, bad news for Tesla yesterday. China says it may soon lift the 40% tariff it imposed on cars imported from the US, and a judge in Connecticut has ruled the company is illegally selling cars at its store in Connecticut.
A Chinese official says the agreement reached at the G20 conference last week between China and the US will be implemented “immediately.” What does that mean for the tariffs on Tesla automobiles exported to China? We simply don’t know yet.
