Tesla seems to be within the means of constructing a brand new everlasting tent on the Fremont manufacturing unit, as per a submitting seen by InsideEVs on the Metropolis of Fremont web site.

The corporate has categorized the submitting underneath the constructing permits part, and its title reads as, “Set up of everlasting tent at street – mild tunnel construction, electrical and controls.” The venture price is $750,000. The submitting additionally mentions the set up of a number of lighting fixtures, switches, and receptacles together with a number of circuit breakers.

There’s no info on the sq. footage or the precise goal of the tent, however such spring constructions aren’t a brand new sight in Fremont. The model raised spring constructions previously so as to add manufacturing strains and meet demand. So it’s attainable that Tesla may use the brand new tent for manufacturing functions.

After churning a record variety of autos within the first two quarters of 2023 from its factories worldwide, CEO Elon Musk said through the Q2 2023 earnings name that manufacturing might be down in Q3 2023 as a result of factory upgrades. Final week’s filings indicated that retooling was underway at Fremont, and now it looks like growth could be ongoing as properly.

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The model has two extremely anticipated fashions within the pipeline, the Cybertruck and the so-called Model 3 Challenge Highland. The previous will likely be manufactured at Gigafactory Texas, whereas manufacturing of the latter could be cut up between Fremont and Shanghai. The web is flooded with spy shots of each fashions, as testing seems to be underway.

With scaled-up manufacturing, supply instances for Tesla EVs have diminished compared to last year. Most fashions have a ready interval of roughly one month, as per Tesla’s web site. Though it’d fluctuate marginally relying on the supply location. The identical is translated into gross sales, as Tesla was the second best-selling EV maker in H1 2023 globally, behind BYD.

Though BYD tallies each its PHEVs and BEVs collectively its gross sales numbers, which places Tesla proper on prime of the charts in terms of pure EV gross sales.