After being forced to suspend operations for 22 days due to the lockdown of Covid-19, Tesla Inc.'s Shanghai-based electric car production plant has been allowed to resume business.
But less than 3 weeks later, the same production plant had to suspend operations again due to supply problems.
Since resuming operations on April 19, Tesla's Shanghai plant is said to have produced about 1,200 units of vehicles per day.
Among the main plans of the plant is to increase production to pre-Covid level by next week, besides also projecting to produce 2,600 units of vehicles a day starting May 16.
Even so, the plan was roughly seen as a failure to implement due to supply issues that forced the plant to stop operations.
According to sources, it is still unclear when the supply issue will be resolved and there is still no notice by Tesla on when they will resume operations.
As far as is known at the moment is one of Tesla's suppliers, Aptiv which makes harness wires had to stop deliveries to factories in Shanghai including the General Motors plant after discovering that some of its employees had contracted the Covid-19 virus.
Tesla has not yet confirmed this or issued any further official statement.
Meanwhile, the disruption to Tesla’s plant in Shanghai has been one of the highest profile effects of epidemic control measures by the country’s largest Chinese government.
In addition, the Chinese car association reported that car sales estimates in China for April would decline 48% with the plant forced to close due to Covid-19, which limits traffic to showrooms and slows spending.
