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Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory Produces New Models Every 40 Second

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Tesla Model Y is now officially on sale in Malaysia priced from RM199,000 excluding options.


The Shanghai Gigafactory has always moved at a faster pace than any other major car factory in the world; the Chinese facilities were built in record time, and assembly lines began producing the first Tesla Model 3 units in December 2019.

Since then, the Giga-Shanghai factory has steadily increased its speed, to the point where it can now produce a brand new Model 3 or Model Y every 40 seconds, as per a new Twitter video.


Customers won't have to wait long now that Tesla's Model Y has already been launched in Malaysia, as the remarkable manufacturing speed even outperforms Ford, which stated in a press release in January 2023 that its Dearborn, Michigan, truck plant can roll out an F-150 every 49 seconds.

A glimpse of Giga Shanghai can be seen in the video posted on Shanghai's tourism account, which shows the coordinated operation of many robotic arms at a single station to increase productivity. The video also shows how double-stacked workshops can be used to organise production lines in a highly effective way.

According to one report, the plant has an annual capacity of more than one million vehicles, and Tesla has already sold nearly half a million made-in-China (MIC) EVs in H1 2023.

The plant also serves as an export hub for Tesla, with the MIC Model 3 and Model Y being shipped to countries such as Thailand, Canada and currently Malaysia.

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Additionally, the Shanghai factory offers practical amenities for its employees, such as 16 restaurants where food orders can be placed via the Teshenghuo app, which was created in-house by Tesla's IT department.

But in July 2023, Tesla made some layoffs at the Giga Shanghai battery manufacturing line, possibly as a result of the introduction of automated machinery. The affected employees had the option of switching to other factories' workshops.


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