wiredInUSA December 2019

Car production gets connected

Tesla’s first car factory in China has been officially connected to the country’s power grid. State Grid Corporation of China has opened the first transmission line in a project that increases the electrical supply to the Tesla plant to a level required for preliminary production. State Grid will eventually increase the power supply eightfold, to allow the factory to run at full capacity.

among the quickest it has completed, taking only six months.

By the end of 2019, California-based Tesla plans to be producing at least 1,000 of its Model 3 cars a week at the plant, where construction began at the start of the year. China has exempted Tesla from a 10 percent sales tax, and the company is said to have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from local banks.

State Grid said the project, involving 55km of cables and about 17km of ducts, was

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