Tesla seems to be within the strategy of constructing a brand new everlasting tent on the Fremont manufacturing facility, as per a submitting seen by InsideEVs on the Metropolis of Fremont web site.
The corporate has categorized the submitting beneath the constructing permits part, and its title reads as, “Set up of everlasting tent at highway – gentle tunnel construction, electrical and controls.” The mission price is $750,000. The submitting additionally mentions the set up of a number of lighting fixtures, switches, and receptacles together with a number of circuit breakers.
There’s no data on the sq. footage or the precise goal of the tent, however such spring constructions aren’t a brand new sight in Fremont. The model raised spring constructions beforehand so as to add manufacturing traces and meet demand. So it’s attainable that Tesla may use the brand new tent for manufacturing functions.
After churning a document variety of automobiles within the first two quarters of 2023 from its factories worldwide, CEO Elon Musk said in the course of the Q2 2023 earnings name that manufacturing might be down in Q3 2023 as a consequence of manufacturing facility upgrades. Final week’s filings indicated that retooling was underway at Fremont, and now it looks as if enlargement could be ongoing as effectively.
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The model has two extremely anticipated fashions within the pipeline, the Cybertruck and the so-called Mannequin 3 Undertaking Highland. The previous can be manufactured at Gigafactory Texas, whereas manufacturing of the latter could be break up between Fremont and Shanghai. The web is flooded with spy photographs of each fashions, as testing seems to be underway.
With scaled-up manufacturing, supply instances for Tesla EVs have lowered in comparison with final 12 months. Most fashions have a ready interval of roughly one month, as per Tesla’s web site. Though it’d differ marginally relying on the supply location. The identical is translated into gross sales, as Tesla was the second best-selling EV maker in H1 2023 globally, behind BYD.
Though BYD tallies each its PHEVs and BEVs collectively its gross sales numbers, which places Tesla proper on high of the charts with regards to pure EV gross sales.