Tesla seems to be within the strategy of constructing a brand new everlasting tent on the Fremont manufacturing unit, as per a submitting seen by InsideEVs on the Metropolis of Fremont web site.

The corporate has categorized the submitting beneath the constructing permits part, and its title reads as, “Set up of everlasting tent at street – mild tunnel construction, electrical and controls.” The undertaking price is $750,000. The submitting additionally mentions the set up of a number of lighting fixtures, switches, and receptacles together with a number of circuit breakers.

There’s no data on the sq. footage or the precise function of the tent, however such spring buildings aren’t a brand new sight in Fremont. The model raised spring buildings beforehand so as to add manufacturing traces and meet demand. So it’s doable that Tesla might use the brand new tent for manufacturing functions.

After churning a document variety of automobiles within the first two quarters of 2023 from its factories worldwide, CEO Elon Musk acknowledged through the Q2 2023 earnings name that manufacturing might be down in Q3 2023 as a consequence of manufacturing unit upgrades. Final week’s filings indicated that retooling was underway at Fremont, and now it looks as if enlargement is likely to be ongoing as effectively.

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The model has two extremely anticipated fashions within the pipeline, the Cybertruck and the so-called Mannequin 3 Challenge Highland. The previous will likely be manufactured at Gigafactory Texas, whereas manufacturing of the latter is likely to be cut up between Fremont and Shanghai. The web is flooded with spy photographs of each fashions, as testing seems to be underway.

With scaled-up manufacturing, supply instances for Tesla EVs have diminished in comparison with final 12 months. Most fashions have a ready interval of roughly one month, as per Tesla’s web site. Though it would fluctuate marginally relying on the supply location. The identical is translated into gross sales, as Tesla was the second best-selling EV maker in H1 2023 globally, behind BYD.

Though BYD tallies each its PHEVs and BEVs collectively its gross sales numbers, which places Tesla proper on prime of the charts in terms of pure EV gross sales.