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Tesla has preliminary deal for Tesla owned factory in China

• nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

The preliminary deal still offers Tesla control over its trade secrets and may give the company leverage to negotiate better terms with the Chinese government in the future. Tesla hopes to complete the deal by the end of the year.

Tesla to build cars in Shanghai while still paying tariffs on them would be a coup for the Chinese government. If Tesla were making cars in the Shanghai area, it would have a powerful incentive to buy many, if not most, of the parts in China, strengthening China's base of suppliers for the fast-growing electric car industry.

China already has the world's largest market for electric cars.

LMC Automotive, a global consulting firm, estimates that 295,000 battery-electric cars will be sold this year in China, compared with 287,000 in the rest of the world combined. LMC predicts that China's total will nearly triple in the next two years, while the rest of the world's will merely double.


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