Tesla will start shipping cars from China to Europe this Tuesday: The US electric vehicle and battery manufacturer Tesla is building a new gigafactory near Berlin in Europe. Until it starts operating, electric cars must be imported into Europe.
Tesla Inc. will soon be delivering electric cars manufactured in China to Europe. Around 7,000 Model 3s manufactured in the gigafactory in Shanghai are scheduled to arrive in Belgium at the end of next month.
The zero-emission vehicles are destined for countries such as Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk announced last week that production capacity for the Shanghai plant, which opened on October 18, 2019, has now reached 250,000 units per year for the Model 3.
Tesla will start shipping cars from China to Europe this Tuesday
According to Chinese media reports, Tesla will start shipping electric cars from China to Europe on Tuesday.
At the end of last year, the novel corona virus, now known as Covid-19 or Sars-Cov 2, was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan. While China seems to have the pandemic under control, it is spreading internationally.
In the last quarter Tesla produced a total of around 143,000 electric cars. Last week, Chinese regulators announced that Tesla must recall over 30,000 of its U.S.made S and X models.
This affects the production date between September 17, 2013 and August 16, 2017, due to potentially defective and unsafe front and rear suspensions of electric vehicles.
