Tesla’s Shanghai factory stays closed as COVID restrictions remain in place

Tesla’s Shanghai manufacturing facility will stay closed for an additional day as town offers with strict lockdown measures introduced on by an uptick in COVID-19 instances, as first reported by Bloomberg. In an organization memo obtained by Bloomberg, Tesla reportedly instructed workers on Sunday to remain house to adjust to town’s COVID restrictions.

A earlier report from Reuters indicated that Tesla would resume manufacturing on the Shanghai plant on Monday, April 4th, as some stay-at-home orders have been anticipated to finish. Nonetheless, employees within the japanese portion of town — the place Tesla’s manufacturing facility is situated — are nonetheless going through COVID-related motion restrictions, and there’s no phrase on when town plans to elevate them.

Tesla first shuttered its plant on March twenty eighth, the beginning of town’s two-stage lockdown, and initially aimed to maintain the manufacturing facility closed for simply 4 days. As of Monday, the manufacturing facility can have been closed for one week. Tesla beforehand closed the Shanghai manufacturing facility for 2 days in mid-March resulting from an increase in COVID-19 instances.

The Shanghai manufacturing facility is Tesla’s largest, and in line with Reuters, it produces round 6,000 Mannequin 3 and 10,000 Mannequin Y autos each week. On Saturday, Tesla reported a document 310,048 automobile deliveries in quarter one in all 2022, regardless of Tesla CEO Elon Musk calling it an “exceptionally” troublesome quarter resulting from provide chain disruptions and the Shanghai plant’s shutdown. Tesla is about to open a brand new plant in Austin, Texas this week, and in addition opened a manufacturing facility in Berlin, Germany final month.