Tesla has dominated the EV panorama in Australia, and throughout the globe, for almost a decade. Within the early years, the corporate produced vehicles in a transformed manufacturing unit in Fremont, California and shipped them regionally in transport containers however that modified in 2021 when the majority of Tesla Mannequin 3 autos began to be shipped from it’s new purpose-built Shanghai Gigafactory.
Now Tesla has introduced that its Shanghai gigafactory, now Tesla’s world export hub, has produced its two-millionth automobile.
The automobile that marked the milestone was a multicoat pink Mannequin Y and it was celebrated by manufacturing unit workers with a mass picture on the Shanghai plant shared on Twitter/X.
Gigafactory Shanghai achieves 2 million manufacturing milestone 🎉 pic.twitter.com/R3UxQ4Xal7
— Tesla Asia (@Tesla_Asia) September 6, 2023
The primary million vehicles had been produced at Shanghai in 33 months. The following million took simply 13 months.
During the last couple of years, Tesla has been recognized for producing high-quality autos out of the Shanghai plant. The identical manufacturing unit is famend for producing autos with Tesla’s newest options earlier than they make their method to Tesla’s different factories.
Tesla’s newest Mannequin 3, the brand new Challenge Highland variant, is at present being produced on the Shanghai manufacturing unit and is anticipated to ultimately start manufacturing within the US.
With Tesla having over 97% of the provision chain for the Shanghai manufacturing unit based mostly regionally in China, it additionally helps decreasing inefficiencies similar to the fee to move elements all around the globe, which then interprets into decrease costs for finish clients. Clients in Australia have seen a number of worth cuts this yr.
The Shanghai plant as delivered over 50,000 EVs into Australia, together with each the Mannequin 3s and Mannequin Y.
Riz is the founding father of carloop based mostly in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception experiences and developments. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for vehicles, significantly EVs and needs to assist cut back transport emissions in Australia. He at present drives a pink Tesla Mannequin 3.