Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai resumes normal operations for end of Q1 delivery blitz

It appears Tesla’s efforts to keep China’s Gigafactory Shanghai running have paid off, with the electric vehicle production facility restarting on Friday. Giga Shanghai took a brief two-day break in its operations amid China’s tough restrictions due to the recent rise in COVID cases in the country.

Tesla’s Shanghai-based electric car factory resumed production of its two-shift vehicle at 7 a.m. local time on Friday. This feature will once again be running round the clock, which means that production of the Model 3 and Model Y should begin rapidly in the coming days. Adequate workers of the plant have reportedly returned to their posts after being kept in a nearby residential complex for 48 hours. This time was spent testing workers for possible COVID-19 infections.

As mentioned in a report by Automotive News, Updates about Giga Shanghai’s return to operations were shared by individuals who were familiar with the EV maker’s operations. The persons who provided the information opted to remain anonymous as they were reportedly not authorized to speak to the media. Tesla China, for its part, has so far not commented on Giga Shanghai’s operations.

With the Gigafactory back in Shanghai after a two-day break, Tesla’s output from China this month could still be pretty impressive. There are 31 days in March, and a two-day shutdown shouldn’t cut the company’s numbers that much. It should be noted that Tesla delivered a record number of 70,847 vehicles in a month with the same number of days as March in December 2021, and that also happens to be the last month of a quarter.

Tesla typically engages in a quarter-end delivery blitz, in which company employees dig deeper during the last month of the quarter to ensure maximum vehicle deliveries. While the system has allowed Tesla to post impressive numbers, CEO Elon Musk has called for an end to the practice, saying in an email from November 2021 that delivery blitzes are burning out the company’s employees. Musk wrote that Tesla should work on reducing the wave of deliveries that are typically done in the last week of the quarter.

Given that March 2022 is the last month of the first quarter, it wouldn’t be surprising if Tesla China would end up conducting vehicle delivery blitzes in the coming days anyway. After all, Tesla China typically allocates the last week of the quarter for local vehicle deliveries. And the demand for Tesla’s electric cars based on the performance of the Model 3 and Model Y in China’s EV segment is noteworthy.

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Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai resumes normal operations for end of Q1 delivery blitz






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