Tesla will send engineers and production staff from its Shanghai plant to help expand its factory in Fremont, California. The first workers will depart as soon as this month, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the plans.
Tesla's California plant has an annual capacity of 650,000 units, including 100,000 Model S and Model X units, and 550,000 Model 3 and Model Y units.
Tesla's Shanghai plant produces the Model 3 and the Model Y. The company's second-quarter earnings report, announced on July 20, showed that Giga Shanghai has an annual capacity of more than 750,000 vehicles, making it Tesla's largest plant in the world.
In addition to these two factories, Tesla has factories in Berlin, Germany and Texas, US that can produce more than 250,000 units each per year. At the moment, they are only producing the Model Y.
Tesla delivered 343,830 cars worldwide last quarter. They expect to grow by 50% this year but they predict that this growth rate will be an average over several years.
