Tesla is on track this year to complete its new R&D center in Shanghai that will design and design its new $ 25,000 electric car.
Tesla R&D Center in China
Just over a year ago, Tesla announced plans to establish a new R&D and design center in China to build a “Chinese Chinese” electric car.
Tesla began taking design submissions last summer for its tiny, tiny electric car manufactured by Chinese and shortly thereafter began renting for the program.
Now, Tom Zhu, head of Tesla in China, has given an update on the carmaker’s progress with its new R&D center in China during a new interview:
The executive said about Tesla’s Chinese research and development center:
This center is in the Tesla Lingang Gigafactory, where we are now. We are now building our China R&D here. This R & D center is also the first Tesla R & D outside the United States. The research and development center has all the necessary disciplines, covering vehicle design, vehicle engineering, vehicle development, vehicle testing, and so on. We expect it to be up and running by the middle of this year.
He was not clear about the exact timeline, and according to the translation he could mean by the end of the year.
Zhu noted that there will be more than 20 laboratories in the R & D center.
He also said the new facilities will be used to deliver Tesla’s next electric vehicle:
We will offer very good conditions to facilitate our R&D engineers to achieve our ultimate goal. The ultimate goal has been mentioned in many public events. In the future, we want to design, develop and manufacture an original model in China. It is manufactured here and sold to the whole world.
The executive has reiterated that the R&D center is the ‘starting point’ of the goal.
Tesla’s $ 25,000 Electric Car
When Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and the “structural battery pack” architecture, made it possible on Battery Day last year, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla was going to make a $ 25,000 electric car.
The CEO said in the announcement:
Tesla will make a compelling $ 25,000 electric vehicle that is also fully autonomous.
He made it clear that this new price point is being reached through the new attempt to manufacture batteries and accumulators.
Musk also added that the new $ 25,000 electric car will be on the market in about three years, when Tesla increased production of its new battery cell.
Tesla did not disclose any other specifications on the car, but Musk had earlier indicated that it would have a range of more than 200 miles.
This $ 25,000 Tesla is expected to be the vehicle originally designed and manufactured in China.
Recently, Tesla’s Chinese division submitted some documents to the government on the planning of the production of the new vehicle at Gigafactory Shanghai.
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