Hundreds of Tesla Model 3 Highlands spotted in Shanghai… Sales begin in earnest in the fourth quarter 

[Auto Herald = Reporter Kim Hoon-ki] Hundreds of units of the first partial modification of the Tesla ‘Model 3’, known by the development code name ‘Highland’, were witnessed at the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory, which exceeded 2 million units produced in just four years of factory operation earlier this month. done.

According to some foreign media on the 11th, hundreds of Model 3 Highlands spotted near Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory were vehicles scheduled to be shipped to Europe and had an EU logo on the outside.

Tesla, which unveiled the Model 3 Highland for the first time globally on the 1st, also exhibited the new car at ‘IAA Mobility 2023’ recently held in Munich, Germany, predicting full-scale global sales in the second half of the year.

Related industries predict that an average of 300 Model 3 Highland units are currently being produced per day at the Shanghai Gigafactory, potentially accounting for one-third of the factory’s production. Currently, the main production at Shanghai Gigafactory is ‘Model Y’.

Previously, Tesla unveiled the Model 3 Highland in China and set the basic local selling price at 259,900 yuan, or about 47.1 million won. This is a 12% increase in price compared to the previous rear-wheel drive version.

Tesla unveiled the Model 3 Highland and announced that the driving range when fully charged has significantly improved compared to the version that was first introduced six years ago. Based on CLTC, the maximum driving distance when fully charged for the standard version of the new car is 606 km, and for the long range version is 713 km.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory surpassed 2 million units in cumulative production since it began full-scale factory operation in January 2019. This follows the cumulative production of 1 million units in August last year, and it took 13 months to go from 1 million to 2 million units.