{"id":73995,"date":"2024-07-05T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73995"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:31:32","slug":"tesla-vehicles-approved-government-vehicles-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73995","title":{"rendered":"Tesla vehicles become approved as government vehicles in China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla vehicles have become approved as government vehicles in China \u2013 a first for a foreign-owned automaker.<\/p>\n

It could open the door for large government sales in the country.<\/p>\n

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Over the last few months, Tesla has made a lot of progress in getting closer to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

The automaker managed to fix its problem of being identified as a security risk by changing the way it handled data coming from its vehicles<\/a> in China and that also opened the door to the possibility of being approved for deployment of its Full Self-Driving system in the country.<\/p>\n

That happened after CEO Elon Musk visited the country and met with a few high-level government officials.<\/p>\n

Now, we learn that the provincial Jiangsu government approved the Tesla Model Y made in China as a government vehicle (via The Paper<\/a> \u2013 translated from Chinese):<\/p>\n

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Recently, the Jiangsu Government Procurement Network disclosed the \u201cAnnouncement on the Shortlisted Participants of the 2024-2025 New Energy Vehicle Framework Agreement Procurement for Party and Government Organs, Institutions and Group Organizations in Jiangsu Province (III)\u201d, which showed that Tesla Model Y has entered the Jiangsu Provincial Government\u2019s new energy vehicle procurement catalog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This means that any level of government in Jiangsu, which is a province of 85 million people and the richest per capita in China, can purchase Tesla Model Y vehicles.<\/p>\n

Tesla is the only foreign-owned automaker on the list. Volvo is also on it, but it is owned by China\u2019s Geely.<\/p>\n

There has been some public pushback against the announcement in China, but the government reiterated that it only applies to Tesla Model Y vehicles that the automaker built in China.<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s Gigafactory in Shanghai is now the automaker\u2019s highest-producing plant in the world.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

This could open up Tesla to some large-scale government sales in China, but I think it also shows that Tesla is increasingly cozying up to the Chinese government, especially in the last few months.<\/p>\n

China is a critical market for electric vehicles and therefore, for Tesla.<\/p>\n

It is the largest auto market in the world, and it is adopting electric vehicles at a higher rate than any other large auto market, including the US.<\/p>\n

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