A goal of making 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 will require manufacturing capabilities on every continent, according to the chair of the US electric car maker.
Denholm spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday and said that they were building factories around the world. We need to be in all of the major markets around the world when it comes to electric vehicles and batteries.
On top of plants in California, Berlin and Texas have been opened by the electric car company. The EV maker's China operations are back in full swing after a production line upgrade and after the city's Covid-19 lock down. In August, the company delivered 76,965 Chinese-made vehicles.
When setting a supply chain for the long term, you want those miles those cars travel before someone actually owns them, and that includes shipping and sea freight, because all of those processes add to CO2 emissions.
The electric car maker wants to make 20 million electric cars a year by the year 2030. The plant had an annual capacity of about one million units.
Denholm said that markets around the world are important and that having manufacturing capability on each of the continents is important
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