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Tesla will pause part of new Model Y production for 3 weeks for upgrades, report says

A new report states that Tesla will pause part of new Model Y production at Gigafactory Shanghai for 3 weeks to upgrade the lines.

The shutdown will extend beyond the regular Chinese New Year.

The Chinese New Year is technically 2 weeks long, but the official holiday lasts a week, during which significant parts of the country’s industries shut down.

That includes the auto industry and Tesla, but it looks like the American automaker plans to do things a bit differently this year after having just started production of its updated Model Y at Gigafactory Shanghai.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Tesla plans to shut down part of its new Model Y production lines from around January 22 to February 14.

In comparison, Tesla only plans to shut down production of the Model 3, the only other vehicle produced at the plant, from January 26 to February 3.

Tesla only recently started production of the updated version of its best-selling electric SUV. The report states that the automaker will take advantage of this extended Lunar New Year shutdown to upgrade parts of the production lines in order to streamline and ramp up production capacity.

The automaker delivered about 480,000 Model Ys in China in 2024 – up about 5% year-over-year.

Reports claimed that Tesla received over 50,000 orders for the updated vehicle version in the first 24 hours of the unveiling.

Electrek’s Take

It makes sense. Over the last few weeks, Tesla has basically been running a pilot of production of the upgraded version, which is entirely different from the previous version, but there are enough differences that new parts and processes can create bottlenecks.

Tesla likely found ways to optimize production during that time and now will implement it during this extended shutdown.

We will try to keep track of the Model Y production and rollout in China as any delay or production issues can be extremely impactful, considering the Model Y is the world’s best-selling EV and China is the biggest EV market.

Any kind of issue there can be extremely impactful on Tesla and the broader EV market.

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