China News Service, Shanghai, January 11 (Zhou Zhuoao) Tesla announced on the 11th that the number of super charging stations opened in mainland China has officially exceeded 700, and more than 5,700 super charging piles have been built. The charging network has covered 300 cities in mainland China. .
It is worth mentioning that in 2020 alone, Tesla China has opened up more than 410 super charging stations, of which more than 180 are V3 super charging stations.
Starting from the first super charging station in 2014, Tesla has continued to accelerate the charging network layout in mainland China: from 100 stations to 300 stations, Tesla took three years; from 300 stations to 500 stations, Tesla took time 11 months; from 500 stations to 600 stations, it only took less than a month; from 600 stations to 700 stations, it only took 20 days.
A reporter from China News Agency learned from Tesla that Tesla plans to invest 42 million yuan in Shanghai to build a super charging pile factory integrating R&D and production. The project is expected to be put into operation in the first quarter of 2021. The initial plan is Annual production of 10,000 super charging piles (mainly V3 super charging piles).
Previously, Tesla's super charging piles were imported from the United States, and the commissioning of the Shanghai super charging pile factory will further accelerate the construction of Tesla's charging piles in China.
Tesla said that after years of exploration and development, Tesla has built a dense charging network in China that spans east and west, north and south. With the support of Tesla's charging network, users can already travel all over China. .
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