In a recent Twitter (X) video, Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, was shown to be making a new Model 3 or Model Y electric car every 40 seconds. That’s really fast – even faster than Ford‘s factory in Dearborn, Michigan, which can make a new F-150 truck every 49 seconds.
The factory churns out a new Model 3 or Y every forty seconds, which is insane
This video, which was shared on Shanghai’s tourism Twitter account, lets us see inside Tesla’s massive factory. It showed how many robotic arms work together at a single station to make the process faster. It also showed how they use two layers of workshops to arrange their production lines better.
According to Tesla’s financial reports from the first two quarters of 2023, this factory in Shanghai has been running at almost full capacity for many months. This means they’re making as many cars as they can, and they don’t plan to make any more in China right now. The Shanghai factory can make over a million cars each year. And in the first half of 2023, Tesla sold nearly half a million cars made in China. The factory also sends the Model 3 and Model Y cars to other countries like Thailand and Canada.
So how does Tesla do all this? They say it’s about making things cost less. They’re designing their own controllers, using drive units that can be easily scaled up or down, and they’re always coming up with new ways to make things better.
One of these ways is something called giga casting. This lets Tesla make their cars with fewer parts, which makes the process simpler and cheaper. After Tesla started using this new method, many other car makers said they plan to do the same.
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