Tesla is sending some engineers and production staff from Gigafactory Shanghai to its factory in Fremont, California in hopes of boosting production at the U.S. plant, according to people familiar with the matter, reports Bloomberg.
About 200 automation and control engineers are headed to Fremont to help increase output at Tesla’s Fremont factory, on an assignment that will last around three months, according to one of the people familiar.
First workers on the overseas assignment are expected to begin heading to California this month. Tesla’s Fremont factory produces the company’s Model S, Model X, Model 3 and Model Y.
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The news comes just a few months after Giga Shanghai’s production was upgraded, with full completion of the expansion project being completed just last month.
In September, Tesla delivered a record 83,135 vehicles in China with the first part of the upgrade completed, seemingly doubling the plant’s annual production to around a million vehicles.
Comparatively, the Fremont factory produces around 650,000 vehicles per year.
Tesla also faced difficulty keeping up with orders, saying that it couldn’t get enough transportation vehicles to bring its cars to customers.
“There weren’t enough boats, there weren’t enough trains, there weren’t enough car carriers to actually support the wave” of vehicle deliveries at the end of the last quarter, Musk said on Tesla’s earnings call last month. “Whether we like it or not, we actually have to smooth out the delivery of cars intra-quarter, because there just aren’t enough transportation objects to move them around.”
Despite the transportation limitations, Tesla’s Fremont factory hit record production in Q3. “We intend to keep raising production in Fremont,” said Elon Musk during Tesla’s earnings call.
