This Tuesday, Tesla claims to be using the regular delivery of Model 3 built in its new Gigfactory in China (GF3) kick off. After the first 15 customers, who were still Tesla employees, normal customers are to be supplied from then on. But a photo from GF3 published on Twitter suggests that the launch ceremony will not only be about Model 3, but also about the new Model Y.
Well, confirmed. Leaked background of tomorrow’s ceremony says Model Y project start. Credit: Watermark pic.twitter.com/0YmdQvetar
– Kelvin Yang (@ KelvinYang7) January 6, 2020
The photo was published by the user @KelvinYang with the note that it comes from “Watermark”. He specifies Tampere in Finland as his place of residence, but further Twitter posts with photos suggest that he is currently in China. The recording is said to have come from the location for the planned ceremony and shows a huge poster that says “Model Y Program Opening Ceremony”, ie “Celebration of Model Y’s program start”.
The Model Y is to become the second affordable volume model from Tesla after Model 3 and could, according to CEO Elon Musk sell better than all previous Tesla electric cars combined, Musk himself is said to be present at the event on Tuesday, according to the Bloomberg news agency. Another Twitter user published data from an aircraft observation page that gave the same impression. High-ranking representatives of the Chinese state are also expected, including Prime Minister Li Keqing.
@elonmusk enrouting to Shanghai for the M3 delivery & MY launch event tomorrow (Jan 7) cc @ValueAnalyst1 @thirdrowtesla pic.twitter.com/JyTuFuDTOZ
— Stanley Yuan 🔋 (@nonlineargrowth) January 6, 2020
As the date for the launch of the Model Y, Tesla originally mentioned autumn 2020. Later, CEO Musk surprisingly announced the electric SUV will come onto the market earlier, Analysts even hold the first quarter of this year for possible, and in the Tesla factory in Fremont in the USA it should be Preparations for production have given.
How exactly the expression “Program start of Model Y” on the poster in GF3 is to be understood remained initially open. Yang himself suspected on Twitter that Tesla would announce that preparations for the production of the Model Y would also begin in China. According to him, further areas are already being prepared for this at the GF3 site. Even if the construction of the first part of the GF3 was completed in record time, another building should not be ready quickly enough to start producing the Model Y well before the end of the year. However, it would be conceivable that Tesla CEO Musk uses the opportunity in China to announce news about the production of the electric car in the USA.
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