Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On November 6, Tesla was unveiled at the Expo with all S3XY models, charging and energy products, and humanoid robots. Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla, answered the significance of the Chinese market to Tesla, his views on the development of China's new energy vehicle industry, and questions about Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory and Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center. To put it bluntly, many of the improvements in the new version of Model 3 come from Tesla Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center. For example, the increase in the stillness of the whole vehicle, the new embracing cockpit, the new interior material, and the long-awaited ventilation function of the front seat in China, and so on.

The following is a transcript of Tao Lin's interview:

Media: what is the significance of the Chinese market to Tesla? What are your expectations for future development?

Tao Lin: the importance of the Chinese market is unique. China's policy of continuous opening up to the outside world, advanced development concepts and a good business environment have created great opportunities for us. China has always been a very important market for Tesla. Tesla's development in China over the past 10 years is inseparable from the strong support of national policies and China's attention to the business environment. China has incomparable advantages and broad prospects compared with other markets in the world. The Chinese market is Tesla's "must option".

"accelerating the transformation of the world to sustainable energy" is Tesla's vision, and China will be an indispensable part. It is believed that in all fields, China will become another global center of Tesla.

Media: what are your views on the development of China's new energy vehicle industry?

Tao Lin: we are optimistic, confident and energetic about the future of China's new energy vehicles. On the one hand, it is a general trend for electric vehicles to replace fuel vehicles; on the other hand, Chinese consumers have become more and more rational. When choosing electric vehicles, they have very clear standards and ideas. Only by constantly strengthening the product strength can they really win users.

Media: what is the significance of the establishment of Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center to Tesla? How is the current development?

Tao Lin: the establishment of the Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center shows that Tesla attaches great importance to the Chinese market. Tesla has regarded the Chinese market as a vital part of his globalization strategy.

Many of the improvements in the new version of Model 3 come from Tesla Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center. For example, the increase in the stillness of the whole vehicle, the new embracing cockpit, the new interior material, and the ventilation function of the front seats that Chinese users have been waiting for for a long time are all the technical achievements of Tesla Shanghai R & D and Innovation Center in different laboratories, repeated testing and continuous optimization.

Media: what is the effect of the establishment of Shanghai data center on Tesla?

Tao Lin: Tesla set up a Shanghai Super Factory data center to store data generated by Chinese business and customers' personal information, and to localize data storage. All data generated from the sale of vehicles in the Chinese mainland market will be stored in China.

Media: what methods does Tesla Shanghai Super Factory use to reduce costs? Improve productivity?

Tao Lin: the actual annual production capacity of Shanghai Super Factory has increased from 750000 vehicles / year in the second quarter to more than 950000 vehicles / year in the third quarter. At present, the Shanghai super factory has realized the localization of more than 95% of the parts, the automation rate has reached more than 95%, and a car can be offline in more than 30 seconds. Prior to this, the 2 million made in China Tesla and the 5 million Tesla in the world were successively off-line at the Shanghai Super Factory.

1. Scientific factory design and layout

The Shanghai Super Factory adopts a linear design, which reduces the number of up and down turns and eliminates the redundant design of the buffer. The double-deck workshop in the workshop is designed to improve the efficiency of space use; several manufacturing links are integrated together, and the plane area and three-dimensional space can be used efficiently.

2. Highly automatic production line

The work efficiency of the traditional production line that used to take thousands of people to complete, now Tesla only needs dozens of people to complete. For example, in Tesla welding workshop, the automation rate is close to 100%.

3. Application of Integrated Die casting

The 6000-ton die-casting machine used by Tesla Shanghai Super Factory greatly simplifies the connection process of the rear soleplate of Model Y model in the welding process, greatly reduces the solder joint and glue amount of the car body, and forms the rear soleplate which originally needs more than 70 parts to be welded at one time. The manufacturing time is reduced from 1-2 hours in traditional process to 3-5 minutes.

4. The warehouse on WOW wheels

Tesla did not build warehouses in the workshop or factory area, using mobile warehouses instead of fixed warehouses. Trucks carry containers full of materials to the workshop and unload them directly on the "dock" cut out of the workshop.

It is worth mentioning that the Warehouse On Wheel (Wheel on Wheel) logistics system saves almost all storage area through mobile container warehouses.

5. Automatic management system

Tesla automatic production line and intelligent production process improve production efficiency. For example, there are thousands of logistics vehicles shuttling back and forth in the factory every day, and Tesla is also planning the vehicle route through a very fine electronic management system.

At the same time, Tesla adopted a vertically integrated production mode, independently developed and manufactured battery, motor, electronic control and other core components, thus realizing the independent and controllable production of the whole vehicle. This highly integrated mode of production makes the factory operation more efficient and greatly shortens the production cycle.

Media: according to Tesla's third quarter financial report, energy storage may become Tesla's new growth point. What do you think of the development prospect of energy storage business in China? How is the progress of Shanghai Super Energy Storage Plant? Will its commercial energy storage batteries (Megapack) be supplied globally? What is the role of energy storage plants in achieving the goal of carbon neutralization?

Tao Lin: in 022, the new scale of China's new energy storage reached 7.3 gigawatts / 15.9 gigawatts, a record high. On April 9, 2023, the Tesla energy storage superfactory project was established in the new Lingang area of Shanghai, which is Tesla's first energy storage superfactory project outside the United States. Tesla Energy Storage Super Factory will plan to produce commercial energy storage batteries (Megapack), which will cover the global market. Tesla's commercial energy storage battery (Megapack) unit can store more than 3 megawatts of energy, enough to meet the electricity needs of 3600 households for an hour. This means that it can store and release a large amount of energy and is suitable for a variety of applications, such as renewable energy systems, peak demand management and so on.

At the same time, the power output of the energy storage battery (Megapack) is up to 1.5MW, which enables it to respond quickly to changes in energy demand and supply, suitable for large commercial projects and utilities, and to build a local power grid that can be disconnected from the main grid.

Welcome to subscribe "Shulou Technology Information " to get latest news, interesting things and hot topics in the IT industry, and controls the hottest and latest Internet news, technology news and IT industry trends.