Yesterday, according to the news released by mainstream media, in April this year, Tesla delivered 25,845 Model 3/Y units in China and exported 14,174 units. At that time, it was concluded that Shanghai, China, is a super car. The factory achieved sales of 40,019 pure electric vehicles in the month (local delivery in China + export). It is now corrected that last month, Tesla (China) sold 25,845 electric vehicles; of these, 14,174 were exported, while 11,671 were sold in the local Chinese market.
In April, Tesla sold 11,671 pure electric vehicles in China; of which, Model 3 sales were 6,264 and Model Y sales were 5,407. Compared with the past few months, the sales of the domestic Model 3 and Model Y in the Chinese market have both plummeted.
Could Tesla really not sell in China?
First of all, the Shanghai Gigafactory in China continues to increase production capacity. The current annual production capacity is more than 310,000 units, which will be increased to 450,000 units by the end of the year. In addition, according to news that has been circulating on the Internet, Tesla is expected to sell more than 300,000 vehicles in China this year. From January to April this year, Tesla’s sales in China totaled 81,000 units, about 220,000 units away from breaking the 300,000-unit mark. In other words, in the next 8 months, Tesla will sell an average of 27,500 vehicles per month, and it can successfully achieve this goal, which should not be too difficult.
Secondly, although Tesla has been hit by negative public opinion recently, people in the field should be able to understand the tricks and the impact on Tesla is actually quite limited.On the contrary, if Tesla can take to account for , taking advantage of the great opportunity that has attracted hundreds of millions of public attention and heated discussions, it will take practical actions and establish such things as customer first, technology first, and product in the minds of consumers. A good brand image, such as completely reliable quality, can not only win more consumer recognition and support, but also make business competitors in the market (individually malicious) feel more pressure since then.
Third, in April this year, Tesla's Shanghai factory produced nearly 26,000 vehicles, of which over 14,000 were exported, not only setting a new record. It also shows that Tesla is committed to the competitive advantage gained by expanding the scale of the global market. Because, while meeting the needs of the Chinese market, the Shanghai Gigafactory can continue to export in large quantities, which will undoubtedly raise the competitiveness of its products to a new height. Domestic consumers often feel that since domestic Teslas are so popular abroad, choosing Tesla by themselves must be a more correct decision. And foreign consumers more or less have the same idea. In addition, it was also reported on the Internet that the Model Y production line of the Shanghai super factory was suspended for two weeks in April to upgrade the production line equipment, which brought fluctuations to April sales.
Fourth, the TESMANIAN website announced on May 11 that in China, Tesla sold 11,671 vehicles in April, lower than in previous months, due to a significant increase in the number of exported cars. In April, the China Passenger Car Association exported 107,000 complete vehicles and CKDs, a year-on-year increase of 146%, and new energy vehicles accounted for 16% of the total exports. Tesla (China) alone has exported 14,174 pure electric vehicles, which not only made a large incremental contribution, but also became the largest export brand of new energy vehicles in China.The construction of overseas factories promotes the export of passenger car CKD. In April, Chery sold 8,280 CKD vehicles, Great Wall Motors sold 32,620 vehicles, and SAIC passenger cars 2,566. Other car companies still need to work hard.
Tesla has recently hinted in a US SEC filing that Tesla may continue to expand the Shanghai Gigafactory. Tesla said that the cars made by the Shanghai Gigafactory are exported to effectively ease the pressure on its vehicle delivery, and the company hopes to set up more factories near the local Chinese market. According to Tesla's global factory plan, only the Fremont factory in California and the Shanghai Gigafactory in China will produce Model 3 models in the future, while the Berlin factory in Europe will only produce Model Y. In other words, the Shanghai Gigafactory in China will be responsible for exporting to the European and Asia-Pacific markets.
Of course, the last thing I have to say is that Tesla is more unique than other car companies because of its boss like Musk . netizens touting Musk is completely different from "Chongmei". As an science and engineering male , it is normal to admire Musk from the bottom of his heart. Why does
say that? For Musk, a netizen commented quite well.
A rich man who made a fortune in an American Internet company and the founder of Internet third-party payment, he resolutely gave up relying on to monopolize in the Internet field and lay down to make money, sold all Internet assets, and invested all of his assets in SpaceX and Tesla Two American entities technology industrial enterprises, and led the two companies to spend more than ten years from scratch to achieve the world's top level, making their motherland (the United States) stronger in the field of industrial technology.
Tesla has become the global leader in electric vehicles, changing the decline of American car companies facing Japanese and German car companies, and driving the new energy industry in the United States.SpaceX has become a global commercial aerospace leader, grabbing a large proportion of commercial space launch orders from countries such as Russia, ESA, and China. It is also Musk's SpaceX that has completely freed the United States from the pattern that Russia has monopolized manned spaceflight for the past ten years. In addition, SpaceX successfully passed the market competition and hit the high-priced and inefficient traditional aerospace forces in the United States, such as Boeing , ULA, and Lock Martin, and became a catfish in the American industry. What’s even more amazing is that Musk will also invest all the money he will make into physical industrial technology in other fields, such as brain-computer companies, tunnel companies, photovoltaic companies, and so on.
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