Tesla Shanghai Factory Expansion Completed and Undergoing Tests

  • EV maker intends to raise factory’s annual output to 1 million
  • Shanghai plant accounted for half of Tesla deliveries in 2021

The Tesla Inc. Gigafactory in Shanghai.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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Tesla Inc. finished upgrading production lines at its Shanghai factory on Monday and is testing them until Nov. 30 as it doubles the plant’s annual output to 1 million vehicles.

The upgrade took nine months, according to a document filed to the Shanghai government’s environmental information disclosures platform.