Tesla to Build New China Plant for Energy-Storage Battery

The planned expansion in Shanghai comes as U.S.-China tensions rise

China is the second-largest market for Tesla after the U.S.Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News

Tesla Inc. is building a factory in Shanghai to produce its Megapack battery, the company and its chief executive, Elon Musk, said, further expanding into the country at a time of fraught U.S.-China ties.

The new factory, where Tesla will manufacture its high-capacity battery for energy storage, is scheduled to break ground in the third quarter this year and start production in the second quarter of 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. The amount of Tesla’s investment wasn’t immediately clear.

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