Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory to Enter Partial Operation by Year-End
Tang Shihua
DATE:  Mar 07 2019
/ SOURCE:  yicai
Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory to Enter Partial Operation by Year-End Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory to Enter Partial Operation by Year-End

(Yicai Global) March 7 -- Tesla is expected to put some production lines at  the US electric car giant's under-construction Gigafactory facility into  operation by the year-end, state-backed news outlet Shanghai Observer  reported Chen Mingbo, chairman of the Shanghai Commission of Economy and Information Technology, as saying.

Progress on the facility's construction has been smooth so far, Chen said during  the annual meetings of the National People's Congress and the Chinese  People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political  advisory body.

Chen lauded the project as a landmark achievement for the country, adding  that it only took six months to go from the signing of initial deals to  breaking ground. He called it the largest foreign manufacturing project  ever to land in the eastern Chinese city. 

Located Shanghai's Lingang Industrial Park, the facility will boast initial weekly production of around 3,000 Model 3 sedan cars with an annual capacity of 250,000 during the first phase. 

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