Tesla Shanghai

Tesla delivered 180,570 units in the fourth quarter and saw 499,550 cumulative deliveries in 2020. It's a new milestone for the electric car maker, but slightly below CEO Elon Musk's goal of delivering 500,000 units for the year.

Tesla is responding to previous media reports that it is trying to increase sales in China and that bad parts are being loaded onto cars.

Tesla has registered the Performance Model 3 to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), as well as the Zero-G wheels and new headlights for the electric car.

At present, Tesla's Supercharger stations have covered 61 cities in China.

The Tesla Shanghai plant set an immediate target of producing 5,700 Model 3s per week in November, which could be enough to help Tesla meet its annual production and delivery expectations of 500,000 electric vehicles, according to 163.com.

Recently, Tesla came back into the spotlight when several tech bloggers claimed that the US carmaker launched a revised version of the Model 3 produced by the Shanghai Gigafactory in the Hong Kong market, instead of supplying this new model to Chinese mainland customers.

Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory plans to produce about 550,000 vehicles in 2021, including 300,000 Model 3s and 250,000 Model Ys, 36kr.com quoted a source as saying.

China-made Tesla Model Y has completed its regulatory filing and the battery type is lithium-ion ternary batteries, documents released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed on Thursday.

China-made Tesla Model 3 delivery date has been changed from 1-2 weeks to 4-6 weeks as customer demand soars, according to information on Tesla China's official website.

The China-made Model 3 export ceremony was held at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory on October 26, and about 7,000 Model 3s will be exported to the European market on Tuesday and are expected to arrive at the Belgian port by the end of next month, according to thepaper.cn.