Tesla model 3 production can start in China this year. And model Y?
7. January 2019 by Zachary Shahan
Update: New tweets are added to the bottom of this article.
Get ready for Tesla China Shanghai Gigafactory's groundbreaking ceremony today!
$ TSLA #Tesla #China # GF3 #TeslaChina pic.twitter.com/BnZFvspdfS
̵[ads1]1; Vincent (@ vincent13031925) January 7 , 2019
I do not remember if Elon Musk said this before, or if I have just had the nonsense for several months – I think the latter – but another piece of news tonight is that Tesla aims to start model 3 production in China by the end of the year.
Given the pace of the Tesla Gigafactory 3 development since the middle of last year, it has proved likely that Tesla was targeting a 2019 production park in Shanghai.
As always, production would ramp up slowly. (You have to train kinks and move forward an alien dreadnought step at a time.) Elon does not expect high volume production to start until 2020. Nevertheless, as fast as affordable Tesla bulls can dream, and about 1000 years earlier than Tesla shorts and critics expected.
The purpose of completing original construction this summer, model 3 production begins at the end of the year and reaches high volume production next year
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2019
With Tesla to do yet A big step forward and curb another milestone armchair, Tesla trolls have claimed that it would never happen, one might think the critics would go off the accelerator and naysayers would start saying "yay!"
Haha – It's gonna be the day!
There are still so many talk points people who want to see Tesla fail, cling to, and these people and talk points affect innocent followers – millions of them. The ordinary person on the street hears much more of things you find in our # Pravduh series than you read here on CleanTechnica .
Even some such as Jim Cramer from CNBC and The Street who are to follow these things closely and understand the company well, apparently do not gather the whole story every day. He has occasionally had good assignments at Tesla, but a tweet tonight means he does not understand Tesla's geographic giga factor strategy or basics for auto production. Fortunately, Elon was online to quickly tweet a simple explanation for the problem produced:
Shanghai Giga production is only for larger China, not North America.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2019
Shanghai Giga will produce affordable versions of 3 / Y for larger China. All model S / X and higher cost versions of Model 3 / Y will still be built in the US for the WW market, including China.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2019
Hopefully, Cramer will convey the story well to his millions of viewers in 2019. If not, we will do our best to correct the record with our communication to million readers.
Back to Gigafactory 3 one big question remains. When will model Y production begin?
Earlier, Elon noted that Gigafactory 3 would first produce Tesla Model Y and Model 3. It has also been said recently that Model Y is essentially ready for production. Of course, with too much demand for model 3 at the moment, there is no point in rushing model Y out of the door, but it seems that the electric crossover might be a useful addition at the end of 2019.
Can Tesla work through early model Y production exercises in the US this year and be ready to pop it out of Gigafactory 3 when production starts there? Or will Tesla keep things in sequential order to avoid harmful complications, and just start working on model Y production in China when Model 3 production rolls at high volume and with limited challenges?
We want to see.
Some Elon fans from China also show off the groundbreaking ceremony to show support! TS $ TSLA #Tesla #China # GF3 #TeslaChina pic.twitter.com/dYMlNTSJmf
– Vincent (@ vincent13031925) January 7, 2019
Update: Shanghai Tesla owners club members reports: Elon Musk just arrived at Shanghai GF3's groundbreaking ceremony placement.
$ TSLA #Tesla #China # GF3 #TeslaChina pic.twitter.com/Fc2HG1iFvM
– Vincent (@ vincent13031925) January 7 , 2019
Related: Video: Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai Construction Moving Forward
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Zachary Shahan Zach is Attempting to Help Society helps themselves (and other species). He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as his director and editor in chief. He is also the president of Important Media and the director / founder of EV Obsession and Solar Love . Zach is recognized globally as an electric car, solar energy and energy storage expert. He has presented cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States and Canada.
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