Tesla 's Shanghai plant delivered 88,869 vehicles in March, up 35 percent year-on-year, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association.

The American automaker's R&D and Innovation Center in Shanghai is now carrying out more original development work on finished vehicles and freight equipment. In this context, David Lau, vice president of software engineering at the company, pointed out that the company's teams in China are able to design products that suit Chinese consumers.

In 2022, the company's Shanghai plant delivered 710,000 vehicles, an increase of 48 percent over 2021.
Founded in Shanghai in 2019, the Tesla Gigafactory is the automaker's first giant factory outside the United States, with an industrial chain localization rate of over 95 percent and 99.99 percent of the employees are Chinese.

According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China is the world's largest NEV production and sales market. In the first two months of this year, the nationwide sales of this type of car reached 933,000.