Tesla secures major construction permit
China DailyA view of a Tesla showroom in Shanghai. With its construction permit obtained on Monday, US electric vehicle maker Tesla's energy storage project in Lin-gang, eastern Shanghai — the first of its kind outside the United States — is expected to break ground this month and enter mass production in the first quarter of 2025. Covering some 200,000 square meters, Tesla's new energy storage project has attracted total investment of 1.45 billion yuan. The energy storage plant in Lin-gang is an important optimization of Tesla's global production layout and "visionary "investment for the future of sustainable energy, the company said in a news release. China's incremental new-type energy storage capacity spiked 150 percent year-on-year to 46.6 GWh in 2023 and its compound annual growth rate will exceed 30 percent between 2024 and 2030, said the China Energy Storage Alliance.