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12-30-2019, 12:47 PM
Tesla has delivered the first cars produced by its Chinese Gigafactory, just under a year after the company broke ground on its first factory located outside of the US. Reuters reports that the Model 3 vehicles were delivered to 15 of Tesla’s employees as part of a ceremony. The deliveries were made well within schedule by the company, which had previously said it wanted to begin delivering its Chinese-made cars before the Lunar New Year on January 25th. The locally-produced cars already offer a large price saving over imported models, and a Bloomberg report recently said the company could lower prices further as it cuts costs and uses more locally-sourced components.
The deliveries mark an important milestone for Tesla, which hopes to use its Shanghai factory to gain a foothold in China, the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. It’s hoped that the local factory will help to speed up deliveries and insulate the company from the ongoing trade war between US and China. The Shanghai Gigafactory is the first wholly foreign-owned car plant in China.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a way to close out 2019, and this is only just the beginning. <br>Congratulations to the Shanghai team! <a href="https://t.co/N6U8qlTPWp">https://t.co/N6U8qlTPWp</a></p>— Tesla (@Tesla) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1211489609978437632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042493/tesla-chinese-model-3-cars-gigafactory-3-shanghai
The deliveries mark an important milestone for Tesla, which hopes to use its Shanghai factory to gain a foothold in China, the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. It’s hoped that the local factory will help to speed up deliveries and insulate the company from the ongoing trade war between US and China. The Shanghai Gigafactory is the first wholly foreign-owned car plant in China.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a way to close out 2019, and this is only just the beginning. <br>Congratulations to the Shanghai team! <a href="https://t.co/N6U8qlTPWp">https://t.co/N6U8qlTPWp</a></p>— Tesla (@Tesla) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1211489609978437632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042493/tesla-chinese-model-3-cars-gigafactory-3-shanghai