Gigafactory Shanghai, also called Giga Shanghai, is an automobile manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, operated by Tesla, Inc. Construction began in January 2019 and the first vehicles rolled off the line in December 2019, less than a year after groundbreaking, making it Tesla's first wholly foreign-owned car manufacturing plant in China. The plant manufactures the Model 3 and Model Y and serves as Tesla's main export hub for Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region. It has since become Tesla's largest and most productive manufacturing site, with an annual production capacity reported at more than 950,000 vehicles.
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SignificanceGigafactory Shanghai is Tesla's first wholly owned auto plant in China and its primary production site for vehicles exported to markets without their own Gigafactory, with a stated capacity of over 750,000 vehicles per year. 1 Sources
1. Gigafactory Shanghai (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationlead section, para 1 (construction dates)
Construction of the plant began in January 2019, initial production started in October, and the first production vehicles rolled out of the factory in December 2019, less than one year after groundbreaking.
lead section, para 1 (capacity claim)
Tesla says the factory has the capacity to build over 750,000 vehicles per year and is the primary production site for Tesla vehicles exported to regions without a Gigafactory.
status sentence
It has since become Tesla's largest and most productive manufacturing site, with an annual production capacity reported at more than 950,000 vehicles.
In Group: Automobile and Aircraft Assembly Plants, Introduction
Gigafactory Shanghai (Chinese: 特斯拉上海超级工厂; lit. 'Tesla Shanghai Super Factory') (also known as Giga Shanghai, or Gigafactory 3) is an automobile manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, operated by Tesla, Inc.
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