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Their comments came on Tuesday, when Tesla's new Megafactory in Shanghai's Lin-gang Special Area went into operation, with the factory's first Megapack battery system rolling off the production line.
Covering about 200,000 square meters, the new energy storage project involved a total investment of 1.45 billion yuan ($200 million). Up to 10,000 Megapack storage units are scheduled to be produced there annually.
The Megafactory is the first of its kind that Tesla has built outside the United States. At its launch ceremony in May, Tesla signed a deal with Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co Ltd, securing the first batch of orders for its Megapacks in China.
Tesla's energy storage technology has already achieved a high level of commercialization and market success in the United States, said Liu Qing, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies.
According to Chen Haisheng, chairman of the China Energy Storage Alliance, the targeted output of new-type energy storage, such as electrochemical energy storage and hydrogen storage, will top over 3 trillion yuan by the end of 2025.
As Tesla's first energy storage gigafactory outside the United States, the new Lin-gang plant only took nine months from groundbreaking, which took place in May 2024, to official operation. This was three months faster than when Tesla saw its EV gigafactory in Lin-gang go into operation in January 2020, marked by the production of the first car.
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