Tesla's Shanghai plant delivered 77,695 vehicles in May, soaring 142 percent year on year, said the company.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid a visit to the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory earlier this month during his trip to China, and lauded the plant for its production efficiency and quality.<p>Established in 2019, the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in east China is the carmaker's first Gigafactory outside the United States.<p>In April 2023, the U.S. carmaker announced another big investment in Shanghai -- the construction of a new mega factory dedicated to manufacturing the company's energy-storage product Megapack.<p>The new factory will produce 10,000 Megapack units annually, equal to approximately 40 GWh of energy storage. Its products are expected to be sold worldwide, said the company.