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Tesla Importing Chinese Engineers As Cheap Labor For Its California Factory
- By The Financial District
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min read
After sending Japanese supervisors from Panasonic to its Gigafactory in Nevada to speed up 4680 battery cells production, Tesla is now dispatching its Chinese employees to help their US counterparts in its Fremont, California factory, Daniel Zlatev reported for recently for tech publication Notebookcheck.
Photo Insert: Boosting the Fremont factory production capacity by the Giga Shanghai engineers may lower the waiting times for the Model Y bestseller.
Tesla's aging California plant has been tagged by Elon Musk and his cohorts as the bottleneck that prevents the company from reducing its overall EV production expenses.
Tesla will be dispatching about 200 of its employees from China to California in order to retool its old factory in Fremont for the increasingly complex production tasks it is facing.
The Fremont plant is the only place that makes all-electric car models that Tesla is currently selling while at the same time being the least suited for cheap and efficient mass production in comparison with the shiny new Giga Berlin or Texas factories, as well as the recently upgraded Giga Shanghai plant.
It is precisely the Gigafactory in Shanghai that Tesla will be poaching automation engineers and production line operators from for a period of at least three months.
They will be overseeing equipment installation and production training that should help boost the overall manufacturing capacity for the Model Y/3/S/X lines that are assembled there.
Tesla's increasingly complex supply chain and mounting global shipping challenges have resulted in model fragmentation with units built in different factories having different features or even battery types.
Boosting the Fremont factory production capacity by the Giga Shanghai engineers may lower the waiting times for the Model Y bestseller.
US customers now have to wait until the spring for its delivery, whereas the wait time in China was recently shortened to just a week after the Shanghai factory upgrades, and even the Model Y price was lowered there.
