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By Tao Mingyang (Global Times) 10:19, May 07, 2025

Notably, data from the China Passenger Car Association showed that in March, Tesla's retail sales in China reached 74,127 units, an 18.8 percent year-on-year increase. During the same period, Tesla's retail market share in China reached 7.5 percent, the highest since April 2024.

Tesla's quarterly report showed that its Shanghai plant's current installed annual vehicle capacity has surpassed 950,000, the largest across Tesla's global manufacturing plants. On April 15, a total of 3,499 Tesla EVs, including 3,015 new Model Ys made at the Shanghai Gigafactory, were loaded onto a roll-on/roll-off ship in Shanghai, marking the factory's first overseas batch delivery of the new Model Y, Shanghai local media outlet thepaper.cn reported.

In addition to EV production, Tesla in February launched production at its Megafactory in Shanghai, marking a significant expansion of the company's presence in China. And then just over a month after the production launch, the Megafactory exported its first batch of Megapack energy-storage batteries, according to Xinhua.

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