Tesla upgrades Shanghai giga-factory to clear path for Australian deliveries

Tesla has completed the upgrades to its Tesla Model Y production line and is now looking to upgrade the Model 3 production line to enable its Shanghai giga-factory to produce up to 1.2 million electric vehicles a year, which will make it the biggest in the world.

What do these production upgrades mean for thousands of Australian order holders who are yet to receive their EVs this year? We take a dive into the numbers.

Tesla Model Y production reaches over 2,000 units per day

According to local media, the recent upgrades to the Tesla Model Y line in Shanghai have now been completed and production has resumed. After the upgrade, reports suggest that a production rate of over 2,000 Model Ys per day is already being achieved. That’s with the goal of producing over 2,200 Model Ys per day by early August.

We’ve come to learn that the local demand for the Tesla Model Y has already reached thousands of orders and wait times are into 2023 for any new Model Y orders.

The upgrades will help Tesla reach scaleable volume production and bring the wait times down as they start fulfilling existing orders.

This is good news for those early Model Y order holders who are yet to receive confirmation that their cars have been produced.

The Driven understands that nearly all Model Ys that have been produced for the Australian market so far were done before the shutdown in late June. All of these are the single-motor RWD variant with the LFP battery pack.

The dual-motor Performance variant for local order holders is expected to be produced over the coming months with this increased production rate after the recent upgrades.

First Tesla Model Y deliveries are only weeks away

The first batch of Australian-bound Tesla Model Ys will be arriving over the coming weeks. These were produced last month before the Model Y production line upgrades.

With these and many Model 3s on the way over the coming weeks, there’d be lots of happy new EV owners next month.