Tesla China Produces 3 Millionth Automobile, Nearly 50% Of Mannequin 3 + Y Complete

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Tesla has shared on social media that Tesla China has produced its 3 millionth automobile. That’s fairly an accomplishment for Tesla’s second automobile manufacturing facility. It additionally reveals simply how a lot of Tesla’s enterprise is reliant on Chinese language manufacturing. It’s a helpful time to obtain this replace, as I additionally only recently reported that Tesla handed 6 million cumulative Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y gross sales within the third quarter.

Extra particularly, cumulative gross sales of the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y reached 6,021,007 models on the finish of September. With the 3-million-unit milestone in China handed simply a short while later, we are able to see that China has produced almost 50% of the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y electrical automobiles ever produced.

The speed of manufacturing development in China is likely to be quicker than within the US and Europe mixed. We’ll need to see if the Chinese language manufacturing facility reaches 4 million automobiles produced earlier than cumulative gross sales of the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y attain 8 million.

Giga Shanghai achieves 3 million manufacturing milestone 🎉 pic.twitter.com/Eauqqs3bJC

— Tesla Asia (@Tesla_Asia) October 11, 2024

When Tesla Vice President Grace Tao shared the information on Weibo a couple of days in the past, she additionally famous that the corporate had gone from 2 million to three million automobiles produced in China a lot quicker than it had gone from 0 (zero) to 1 million. “Immediately we launched the Robotaxi driverless taxi, and right here is one other excellent news to share with you: Immediately, the Shanghai Tremendous Manufacturing unit ushered in a brand new milestone — the three millionth automobile rolled off the manufacturing line,” she famous. “It took Tesla Shanghai Tremendous Manufacturing unit 32 months to go from 0 to 1 million automobiles; it took solely 13 months to go from 2 million to three million automobiles. Every automobile is a small step, and three million is an enormous leap,” the Tesla govt wrote in her put up on Weibo.

The corporate doesn’t produce automobiles only for China in China. “Additionally it is Tesla’s major automobile export hub, having exported 1 million automobiles as of late September 2024 to Europe, Asia, and in international locations similar to Australia and New Zealand,” Teslarati provides.

It’s all nice, wonderful progress. And a few folks claimed that the location of the Shanghai Tesla manufacturing facility would by no means be greater than a mud discipline. How occasions have modified!