Tesla begins production of the Tesla Model Y at its factory in Shanghai, China.

Tesla is starting to build Model Y vehicles at its Shanghai plant, according to a video posted by a YouTube user who used drones to fly over the plant.

has adopted a new vehicle introduction strategy for Model Y. Unlike previous vehicle programs, which launched in different markets with vehicles imported from Tesla's Fremont factory in California, Tesla is only introducing Model Y in new markets once the vehicle is produced there.

For the past nine months, Tesla has been expanding the Shanghai Gigafactory to prepare for electric SUV production, even doubling the plant in size.

In October, Tesla released new images of a future Model Y plant in Shanghai, but just last month, the automaker also received Chinese Model Y approval from China's Ministry of Industry and Technology. , information.

YouTuber Wu Wah, who regularly flew over the Shanghai Gigafactory with drones, saw a decent number of Tesla Model Y vehicles leave the factory this week.

“This week we saw 40 Model Ys wrapped in protective covers in a parking lot inside a factory in Shanghai, and four more Model Ys have just joined them as workers prepared to cover the cars with protective covers,” he wrote of said. seen during a flight over the Tesla factory in the video description.

Tesla has been guiding the start of Model Y production at the Shanghai Gigafactory in “early 2021”, but most people have been speculating that production could start sooner with volume delivery starting in the first quarter of 2021.

The first Model Y vehicles produced at the Shanghai plant are expected to be delivered to local employees. The buzz around the Model Y in China is high and the car is expected to make a splash in the small SUV/crossover segment, which is very popular in China.

Last month, a China auto market analyst estimated that Tesla could sell up to 30,000 Model Y vehicles a month once the cheapest version of the electric SUV becomes available. This is about three times more than Tesla's sales in the country.

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