In early 2020, U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla's electric vehicle project in Shanghai, China, went into production after construction was completed within a year.
And the production of electric cars has been an industry miracle. Now, Tesla is working on a second "miracle" in China - the construction of a Model Y production line inside its Shanghai factory.
According to Tencent Tech, Tesla's latest progress on this project includes the fact that the stamping workshop has already begun interior installation.
Tesla has been mass producing the electric sedan Model 3 at its Shanghai factory since the beginning of the year. Early next year, a Chinese version of the electric SUV, the Model Y, will go on sale in volume in China. The "sister model" to the Model 3 platform is ideal for production alongside the Model 3.
Right now, the rainy season is approaching in Shanghai, where the electric car factory is located, but the Model Y production line is still in full swing. Groundwork.
Tesla fans bring the latest news of the production line construction via drone footage.
The Model Y production line is being built faster than any construction project the electric vehicle world has seen before, and at this rate, the Tesla's original stated plan to deliver the Model Y in the first quarter of next year may be a bit conservative.
It should be noted that the Model Y's production shop is larger and more technically advanced than the Model 3 shop in the Shanghai plant. The facility is more complex.
The Model Y final assembly line workshop project is also the second phase of Tesla's Shanghai factory, and the latest drone footage shows the second phase The roofing of Workshop 2A has been completed, with less than one tenth of the roofing of the new workshop in the north now incomplete .
In addition to the final assembly line workshop, other workshops for the Model Y are already under construction.
Among them, the stamping workshop of the Model Y line has already entered the interior installation stage. The stamping shop is the initial stage of the production process in an automotive factory, capable of stamping steel plates into bodywork, doors and other components.
Drone footage shows that new workshops are also being built next to the electric systems shop, which will allow more steel structures to be seen. In addition, construction work has also taken shape in the southeast corner of the entire production line distribution area.
The drones also revealed an interesting phenomenon, the number of Model 3 vehicles parked just off the production line inside the Shanghai factory area drastically reduced.
There are two possibilities for this, one is that the logistics company that transports the finished cars has added space to store the cars, and the other is that Tesla Reduced production at the Shanghai factory, of which lower production is more likely.
In fact, not long ago, the media reported that Tesla's Shanghai factory resumed production quickly after the new crown epidemic eased, but recently there was a The short production halt is mainly due to a shortage of parts supplied by upstream suppliers.
Since production of the Model 3 began at the beginning of the year, Tesla is gradually ramping up production of the domestic Model 3, the The company plans to increase its weekly production from 3,000 to 4,000 units, which equates to an increase in annual production capacity from 150,000 to 200,000 units.
As is well known, China is the world's largest market for electric vehicles, and the global neo-crown epidemic has led to many countries' In this context, Tesla hopes to take advantage of China's huge market to mitigate the decline in overall sales.
