Written by Cláudio Afonso | info@claudio-afonso.com
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Tesla delivered 65.814 vehicles in March, up 16% from the previous month. The US electric vehicle maker produced 55,462 vehicles, 154 more than in February, a shorter month due to Chinese Holidays. China’s Covid Zero policy has been affecting most of the factories production forcing Tesla to suspend its GigaShangai on March 28 for some days.
On April 8, European Union Chamber sent China’s vice premier Hu Chunhua a letter urging the country to review its current COVID policy that’s causing “significant disruptions, extending from logistics and production all the way along the supply chain within China.” Overall passenger car sales in March in China totalled 1.61 million, down 10.9% from 2021, the association said.
Also the Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO announced on Saturday the suspension of the vehicles production due to Covid-19. NIO’s supply chain partners in Jilin (Shanghai) stopped production forcing the company to suspend the production of its vehicles.
Tesla sales declined 11.7% in March year-over-year to 2.23 million vehicles – its first decline in three months and contrasting sharply with an 18.7% jump in February,
On Thursday, during Tesla’s GigaTexas opening ceremony, Elon Musk unveiled that the new factory will be able to produce over 1 Million vehicles once ramped up. Tesla’s CEO also added that Cybertruck production will start in 2023 in Texas.
“We’re aiming, just with the Model Y program alone, to get to have a half a million units a yer and then we’re gonna start manufacturing CyberTruck here next year. The Model Y line will the highest capacity line of any line in the world. Half a million units a year in a single factory of one product. Cybertruck always looks like CGI in the real world but that’s not CGI, but that is not CGI, that is an actual flybertruck driving around. I can’t wait to have this baby in production, it’s gonna be epic.”
“Tesla is growing at the fastest pace of any large manufacturer in history.We’ve now exceedeed 1M cars delivered worldwide. There’s still a long way to go, we’re still a little over 1% of total vehicles output in the world. We want to try to get, I don’t know, around 20%. This is why scale matters, in order to make a really big difference to sustainability, we have to make a lot of cars, a lot stationary packs to transition the world to sustainable technology as soon as possible.”
Last week, China Market regulator SAMR recalled a total of 127,785 Model 3 vehicles, 34,207 imported and 93,578 Shanghai-made. According to the statement, Tesla will use Over the air software update (OTA) to upgrade the motor control software for vehicles within the scope of the recall free of charge. For vehicles that cannot be recalled through OTA technology, users will be contacted through the service center.
Written by Cláudio Afonso | info@claudio-afonso.com