{"id":22298,"date":"2022-05-16T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22298"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:05:05","slug":"tesla-elon-musk-confidence-china-reciprocal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22298","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Confidence In China Happens To Be Reciprocal"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article comes to us courtesy of\u00a0EVANNEX<\/a>, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at\u00a0InsideEVs<\/a>, nor have we been paid by\u00a0EVANNEX<\/a>\u00a0to publish these articles. We find the company’s perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are happy to share its content free of charge. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Posted on<\/span>\u00a0EVANNEX on May 16, 2022,\u00a0by<\/span>\u00a0Zachary Visconti<\/p>\n

COVID-19 forced many automakers and suppliers to shut down in China last month, and many of them are just beginning to ramp up production after the long break. That said,\u00a0another\u00a0production pause\u00a0has taken place\u00a0again. Nevertheless, amidst the surge in cases,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0was\u00a0actually one of a handful of companies the city of Shanghai worked hard to help reopen \u2014 showing just how important to the city and to mainland China\u2019s economy the automaker is.<\/p>\n

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Above: Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u00a0sits down\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang (Twitter:\u00a0China Xinhua News<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n

Officials in Shanghai helped Tesla<\/a> cart over 6,000 employees and supplier employees to their jobs to help the automaker re-open the factory following COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a\u00a0CNBC<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report detailing a letter Tesla sent to authorities. In the letter, Tesla broke down how the city helped the automaker establish its closed-loop production system, including extra disinfection work to help curb the virus\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n

Tesla reopened its Gigafactory Shanghai<\/a> on April 19, following a 22-day production halt due to the surging virus and China\u2019s COVID-zero lockdown policies.<\/p>\n

The letter Tesla sent to Lingang officials, dated May 1, thanked them for arranging buses to transport the over 6,000 Tesla employees and those of suppliers to factories, and for hard work disinfecting to prevent any further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey fought for three consecutive days, working round the clock and non-stop to guarantee our company\u2019s workers could return to the factory,\u201d Tesla wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

Tesla was among the companies whitelisted to resume over 80 percent production by the city of Shanghai earlier this month, according to a report from\u00a0Global Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0earlier this month. Other important automakers and semiconductor manufacturers whitelisted to reopen included SAIC Motor and Hua Hong Semiconductor, though Tesla\u2019s scope and status in a burgeoning electric vehicle industry speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Last year, Tesla\u2019s Gigafactory Shanghai delivered a total of 484,100 vehicles including those in China and exported units, and the automaker is thought to have missed out on producing more than 50,000 vehicles during the production halt.<\/p>\n

Tesla also plans to\u00a0expand its Shanghai factory<\/a>\u00a0to include an additional production facility on a nearby plot of land, expected to add as many as 450,000 vehicles in annual production capacity.<\/p>\n

Despite the loss in production units, Shanghai\u2019s move to get Tesla back up and running shows the automaker as a serious global contender in what is the world\u2019s largest auto market. In addition, Tesla is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the coming EV boom, as more consumers than ever start to transition to zero-emission options.\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of this would even be possible without the\u00a0impressive work ethic showcased by China’s workers\u00a0according to recent praise from Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

“There’s just a lot of super-talented, hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing,” Elon Musk explained in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with the Financial Times last week.\u00a0“They won’t just be burning the midnight oil. They will be burning the 3 a.m. oil,” he continued. “They won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0CNBC<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Global Times<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Financial Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article comes to us courtesy of\u00a0EVANNEX, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at\u00a0InsideEVs, nor have we been paid by\u00a0EVANNEX\u00a0to publish these articles. We find the company’s perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are happy to share its content free of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}