On April 17th, it was reported that Samuel García, the governor of the state of Nuevo León in Mexico, announced that the Tesla Mexico super factory will take about 12 to 15 months to build, which is longer than the time it took to build the Tesla Shanghai super factory in China.
On March 1st of this year, Musk confirmed at Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day event that Tesla will build a factory in Nuevo León, Mexico to produce the next generation of electric vehicles based on a new vehicle platform. The factory will be 20 times larger than the domestic Shanghai factory, covering more than 4,200 acres (about 16.9968 million square meters).
It is reported that Tesla China only took 9 months to build the Shanghai super factory, maintaining the fastest record of building a super factory. On Sunday local time, García stated that the Tesla Mexico super factory is expected to take longer to build because the company will focus on building a new production line for its $25,000 compact car model.
Earlier on March 6th of this year, García stated that Tesla may start producing the first batch of cars in Mexico next year and the company is about to obtain final approval to build a factory in Nuevo León, Mexico.
In early April of this year, Tesla revealed in the third chapter of the “Master Plan Part 3” document that its next generation of vehicles will include a small electric car equipped with a 53kWh lithium iron phosphate battery, with sales expected to reach 42 million vehicles. The media reported that this small electric car may be the Model 2, also known as the Model Q, priced at $25,000.
At that time, the media reported that this $25,000 small car is positioned as a “scaled-down” Model Y, which is accelerating its design and plans to produce at least 4 million vehicles per year, of which 2 million will be produced in the newly built super factory in Monterrey, Mexico. The super factories in Berlin and Shanghai will each produce 1 million vehicles.
