On May 5, according to the Xiaoxiang Morning Post, Tesla insiders responded that “it is an expansion of production, not a second plant” on the issue of “building a second plant in Shanghai”.

Tesla officials said that Tesla has planned a large area of land near the existing plant area, which has been included in the future new capacity planning. The news has been displayed on a land transfer announcement posted on the official website of Shanghai land trading market in early March.

According to Reuters on May 3, a letter from Tesla’s Shanghai factory to the Port Management Committee shows that Tesla plans to build a new factory in Shanghai and expand its annual production capacity by about twice to 1 million vehicles. It home learned that the new plant is expected to produce model 3 (configuration | inquiry) and model y (configuration | inquiry), with an annual capacity of 450000 vehicles.