Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has officially assembled its six millionth battery pack, reaching another massive manufacturing mark for the automaker’s largest production facility globally.
The division announced the achievement on X today, sharing a photo of employees gathered behind a lit up sign that read “6,000,000” to celebrate. The milestone highlights the sheer speed of operations at the Chinese site, coming roughly nine months after the plant produced its five millionth battery pack in November 2025. While Tesla designs the pack structures and manages cell assembly in-house, the individual battery cells used in these units are sourced locally from key suppliers like CATL and LG Energy Solution.
Located in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai, Gigafactory Shanghai opened in late 2019 as Tesla’s first vehicle assembly plant outside the United States and the first wholly foreign-owned car factory in China. Spanning roughly 860,000 square metres, the facility currently builds the Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover.
With an annual capacity exceeding one million vehicles, Giga Shanghai serves as a primary export hub for international markets alongside supplying domestic demand. The factory has produced nearly half of all global Tesla deliveries to date, making it a critical foundation for the EV company’s overall operations.
