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Tesla is the first foreign carmaker to have a wholly owned factory in China. The US EV maker produces the Model 3 and Model Y in Shanghai.
Founded: Jul 2003
CEO: Elon Musk
Ticker: NASDAQ: TSLA
HQ: Texas
2024 revenue: $97.69 billion
Website: tesla.com
  • Nio and Tesla are starting to face each other

    "Now that Nio's average unit sales price is about RMB 150,000 higher than Tesla's in China, our customers are not quite the same class of user as Tesla, and there's a significant differentiation in the brand range," Nio founder, chairman and CEO William Li Bin said at the launch of Nio's 100-degree battery pack on November 6.

  • Tesla extends multimedia memory card warranty on select Model S, X models

    Tesla said today that it is adjusting its 8GB embedded multimedia memory card (eMMC) warranty from four years or 80,000 km, whichever comes first, to eight years or 160,000 km, whichever comes first, for Model S and Model X manufactured before March 2018.

  • Tesla exec denies discriminating against mainland customers on Model 3 supply

    Recently, Tesla came back into the spotlight when several tech bloggers claimed that the US carmaker launched a revised version of the Model 3 produced by the Shanghai Gigafactory in the Hong Kong market, instead of supplying this new model to Chinese mainland customers.

  • Tesla's October sales in China surpassed 10,000 units again, as wholesale sales of NEVs in the country rose 119.8% year-on-year

    Retail sales in China's passenger car market reached 1.992 million units in October, up 8.0% year-on-year, achieving a nearly two-year high growth rate of 8% for four consecutive months, data released today by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed.

  • Tesla Shanghai plant reportedly plans to produce 550,000 cars next year

    Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory plans to produce about 550,000 vehicles in 2021, including 300,000 Model 3s and 250,000 Model Ys, 36kr.com quoted a source as saying.

  • Tesla exec says making efforts to build Tesla China into a company with 'Chinese genes'

    Tesla strives to build a fully functional company with "Chinese genes " in China, the company's vice president Grace Tao told thepaper.cn in an interview on Saturday.

  • Tesla expects to build 650 supercharging stations in China by year-end

    Tesla expects to build nearly 650 supercharging stations in China by the end of 2020, providing more than 5,000 DC charging piles, according to jiemian.com.

  • This is what's happening at Tesla, Nio and Xpeng stores in Shanghai

    Recently, Shanghai has tightened restrictions on vehicles with license plates from other provinces and cities, making a large number of users start to consider buying new energy vehicles with local license plates, especially those from Tesla, Nio, and Xpeng.

  • Elon Musk suggests Tesla is 10 times better than Nio

    As its stock price has soared, Nio's market capitalization has surpassed that of BMW and General Motors. That's gotten the Chinese EV maker more attention, including from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. 

  • China-made Tesla Model Y has completed regulatory filing, using ternary batteries

    China-made Tesla Model Y has completed its regulatory filing and the battery type is lithium-ion ternary batteries, documents released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed on Thursday.