After the upgrade, the US automaker aims to
boost ythe plant's output to a new record high by the end of July to get closer
to its goal of producing 22,000 cars per week in Shanghai, according to the
memo.
A two-month-long COVID lockdown in Shanghai
delayed Tesla's original plan of reaching production of 8,000 Model 3s and
14,000 Model Ys per week at the Shanghai plant by mid-May, two people familiar
with the matter told Reuters previously.
The Shanghai factory has been churning out
17,000 Model 3 and Model Y cars per week since mid-June, according to previous
memos seen by Reuters.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
"Our constraints are much more in raw
materials and being able to scale up production," said Tesla CEO Elon Musk
at the Qatar Economic Forum organised by Bloomberg on Tuesday.
"We are increasing production capacity
as fast as humanly possible," he added.
Production at the Tesla Shanghai factory is
on track to fall by over a third this quarter from the first three months of
the year as China's zero-COVID lockdowns caused deeper disruptions to output
than Musk had predicted.
Last year, Tesla's China-made cars, which
were sold locally and to overseas markets such as Europe and Australia,
accounted for around half of the 936,000 vehicles it delivered globally, based
on Reuters calculations using China Passenger Car Association data.
Customers in Australia now have to wait
until the first quarter of 2023 for their Model Ys while those in Europe can
only pick up their cars at the earliest in the fourth quarter of this year, its
website showed.
For buyers in China, the waiting time for
Chinese-made Tesla cars is between 10 and 24 weeks, the website showed. © Reuters
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