Tesla will demolish a manufacturing line at its Fremont Gigafactory, the place the Mannequin 3 is at present being assembled and can set up new tools, based on filings seen by Teslarati.
As per the paperwork, Tesla utilized to demolish “a number of tools, instruments, and utilities” traces on the Californian facility final week, which signifies that the American EV model may be trying to improve the manufacturing facility forward of the manufacturing launch of the facelifted Mannequin 3 often called “Mission Highland,” which has been within the works for almost a yr.
This data hasn’t been confirmed, but it surely appears to align with the latest debunking from Tesla’s Chinese language division which denied rumors that manufacturing of the refreshed all-electric sedan will quickly begin on the Shanghai Gigafactory, as earlier reviews have indicated.
In a separate article, Teslarati writes that the fillings point out the soon-to-be-replaced line is positioned inside Basic Meeting 4, or GA 4, which grew to become an Web darling a number of years in the past as a result of it regarded like Tesla was utilizing a tent as a manufacturing facility for the Mannequin 3 (it is truly referred to as a spring construction).
At present, solely the Fremont and Shanghai areas assemble the Mannequin 3, so it would make sense for the Elon Musk-led firm to initially focus its manufacturing efforts on america market, the place the entry-level mannequin was the second best-selling battery-electric automobile (BEV) final yr, crushed solely by its Mannequin Y crossover sibling.
At this level, it’s price mentioning that automotive producers often don’t destroy full meeting traces forward of placing a refreshed mannequin into manufacturing. As a substitute, such a motion is usually reserved for when a drastically totally different automobile is about to be constructed.
However with the newest data that is floating across the web claiming that “Mission Highland” may have fewer elements all-around, making for a structurally totally different automobile and never only a beauty refresh, all of the indicators level towards the speculation that the upgraded line will, in actual fact, be devoted to the brand new Mannequin 3.
Tesla is notoriously tight-lipped about all the pieces new and it would not be a shock if it determined to maintain each single piece of knowledge concerning “Mission Highland” underneath wraps till the automotive is finally placed on sale.
Nonetheless, we do know what the entrance of the automotive will appear like, because of a photograph posted on Reddit some time again, and a latest spy video revealed a redesigned steering wheel that is just like the one fitted to the Semi.
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