Written by Cláudio Afonso | info@claudio-afonso.com
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.”
Earlier this 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