Tesla Began Delivering The Chinese Built Model 3 YESTERDAY

Tesla’s first foreign assembly plant will make its first deliveries — to a handful of employees — on December 30th, just shy of a goal marker it set for itself at the beginning of the year.

Construction of the automaker’s $2 billion Shanghai facility kicked off back in January with a promise to reach a production rate of 1,000-plus vehicles per week by the end of the year. While the plant’s production rate is not known, it received the necessary regulatory approvals for production in September, with the first Model 3s assembled in October.
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valhallakey - 12/31/2019 10:32:29 AM

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Unlike Nissan, Toyota etc... plants in the US, these were engineered by US employees in a US based company. We need to retain that large scale manufacturing engineering talent. Also being able to get this completely done in less than 1 year is also pretty amazing.

MDarringer - 12/31/2019 11:06:43 AM

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So now the Chinese will know the joy of having loved ones incinerated in Teslas, or their Teslas driving them into abutments, or crashing at high speed into trucks, or crashing into police cars. This will not end well for Elon. I cannot wait for the Chinese counterfeit to show up. Elon will shit his pants.

SanJoseDriver - 1/2/2020 4:25:51 AM

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China's had Tesla for a long time, Gigafactory 3 just makes them way more affordable. Some of the big accidents highlighted here were in China.

jeffgall - 12/31/2019 11:39:12 AM

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Can’t wait to see the first Telsa knockoff

Runamukk - 12/31/2019 12:06:38 PM

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It'll be called "TesRa"...lol.

MDarringer - 12/31/2019 12:55:19 PM

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That's wasis

mre30 - 12/31/2019 6:35:32 PM

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One from 'column x', one for 'column y' and NOOOOOOOOO substitutions.

carloslassiter - 12/31/2019 12:30:14 PM

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I thought these guys were going bankrupt 3 years ago?

MDarringer - 12/31/2019 1:49:56 PM

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They were, but tax money to the rescue.

dlin - 12/31/2019 3:03:49 PM

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Since Tesla behaves well and construct megaplant there, China can probably ensure no knock off as reciprocity

But where's the tariff!? So fucking tired of lies

Section_31_JTK - 12/31/2019 4:53:34 PM

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So now the ChiComs have stolen Tesla's technology. Wonderful.

MDarringer - 12/31/2019 6:49:33 PM

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Tesla has technology?

skytop - 12/31/2019 5:55:04 PM

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Does it come with soup or egg roll?