Thus Tesla accelerates in China
Tesla sold 76,965 vehicles made and assembled in China in August, nearly triple the previous month. The pivot of production is Shanghai, but the auto giant EV wants to build a dozen gigafactories in the four corners of the globe
Many think that Elon Musk , owner of Tesla and SpaceX, to stop at the main ones, is a smargiasso. And many of his statements, from those that led to the controversy with Twitter to the most recent broadcasts to the Amazon series The Lord of the Rings – The rings of power , through the utterances that have whipped more or less all world leaders, seem to be proof of this. .
THE CHALLENGE OF LOCKDOWN
However, it cannot be said that Musk does not keep many of the things he announces. Immediately after the last Chinese lockdowns, managed with an iron fist by Beijing, which had effectively closed the whole of Shanghai, the South African entrepreneur had promised to strengthen the assembly lines of the Chinese gigafactory, at the moment the pivot of its global production (Austin and Berlin, moreover, are still running in, so much so that Musk himself defined them as "furnaces that incinerate billions" ) to make up for lost time. No sooner said than done.
ALL THE NUMBERS OF TESLA IN CHINA
Tesla sold 76,965 Chinese-made vehicles in August, nearly three times the previous month, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). Merit, in fact, of the deep make-up carried out in the Shanghai plant.
The increase in production has allowed Tesla to accelerate deliveries of the Model 3 and Model Y electric cars to customers especially in China, where it faces greater competition from local rivals. In China, it has reduced waiting times for delivery of the two best-selling models to a maximum of 14 weeks, while buyers of the rear-wheel drive Model Y can pick up the SUV within a month of ordering, at least according to the website. by Tesla.
Overall passenger car sales in China in August increased 28.4% from the previous year to 1.9 million units. Passenger vehicle exports rose 77.5% last month, bucking the slowdown in overall export growth, the CPCA said. The US automaker exported 42,463 Model 3 and Model Y from China. In July it sold 28,217 vehicles and exported 19,756. Musk's intention to meet Chinese demand is clear, especially now that the government has already announced that the incentive plan for the purchase of EV cars is winding down and will go down.
THE AMBITIOUS BUSINESS PLANS OF MUSK
As for the near future, Tesla intends to build a dozen Gigafactories similar to the plant built on the outskirts of Berlin, the first in Europe, worldwide to reach 20 million units produced per year by 2030. To better understand the extent of these numbers just think that, currently, the Elon Musk house can count on a production capacity of 1.5-2 million units per year. The first of these new plants, according to some rumors, should be built in Canada, a region that is crucial for the extraction of the raw materials needed for EV car batteries.
In addition, Tesla Inc is considering opening a lithium refinery on the Texas Gulf Coast to secure supply of the key component used in the batteries. The potential lithium hydroxide refining plant for batteries, which Tesla called the first of its kind in North America, will process "raw mineral material in a usable state for battery production," the company said in an application. filed with the Texas Controller's Office.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/cosi-tesla-accelera-in-cina/ on Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:02:31 +0000.