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Tesla's Gigafactory plans in China just moved forward in a big way


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Back in July, Tesla announced it had signed a deal in China allowing it to build up to 500,000 vehicles a year there. Now Elon Musk's company has acquired the land to build its manufacturing facility in Shanghai.

The location of the Chinese Gigafactory was set as Shanghai because it has a free-trade zone, which means there's no need to partner with a local Chinese company before manufacturing can begin. As Reuters reports, the Shanghai government sold Tesla a plot of land that's roughly 860,000 square meters (213 acres) in size.

The cost of the land hasn't been confirmed by Tesla, but the Shanghai Bureau of Planning and Land Resources lists a recent auction for a 864,885 square meter plot of land as costing just over $140.5 million. It seems unlikely two pieces of land of roughly the same size would be sold so close together, so this is probably what Tesla paid. Read more...

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