Tesla’s Giga Shanghai rolls out 6 millionth battery pack You Should Know
- Giga Shanghai took about 9 months to go from 5 million to 6 million battery packs.
- Giga Shanghai is China’s first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturing project.
Tesla‘s (NASDAQ: TSLA) Gigafactory in Shanghai has produced its 6 millionth battery pack, marking another milestone for the electric vehicle maker’s largest production base globally.
Tesla announced the milestone on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Tuesday. “From cell chemistry to battery pack structure, we insist on in-house R&D and independent design,” the company wrote in the post.
Tesla also said the battery packs undergo multiple rounds of stringent testing and offer strong performance, long lifespans and high safety standards.
The previous milestone came in November 2025, when Giga Shanghai produced its 5 millionth battery pack. That means the latest 1 million battery packs took about 9 months to produce.
Notably, Tesla does not manufacture battery cells itself in China. Giga Shanghai mainly sources cells from China’s CATL (HKEX: 3750) and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution.
Located in Shanghai’s Lingang New Area, Giga Shanghai is Tesla’s first vehicle plant outside the US and China’s first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturing project.
Construction of the factory began in January 2019, with production starting by the end of that year. Deliveries of the Model 3 sedan began in January 2020, followed by the Model Y SUV (sport utility vehicle) in January 2021.
The plant currently has annual production capacity of about 1 million vehicles, making it Tesla’s largest and most highly utilized manufacturing base globally. In more than 6 years of operation, it has contributed nearly half of Tesla’s global EV deliveries.
In August 2024, Tesla’s 10 millionth electric drive system globally rolled off the line at Giga Shanghai. In December 2025, the 4 millionth China-made Tesla vehicle was produced there.
At the end of July this year, Tesla announced that it had produced its 10 millionth EV globally.
However, the stability on the manufacturing side contrasts with Tesla’s weakening sales performance in China.
Tesla delivered 27,249 vehicles in China in July, down 32.91% year-on-year and marking the second consecutive month of year-on-year declines, according to data compiled by CnEVPost based on figures from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
Exports are helping support capacity utilization at Giga Shanghai. The plant exported 66,330 vehicles in July, a record monthly high, accounting for 70.88% of its wholesale sales that month.
In the first 7 months of this year, the Shanghai factory exported 295,324 vehicles, up 130.12% year-on-year and already exceeding the 226,034 units exported in all of 2025. Deliveries in China during the same period fell 12.44% year-on-year to 266,204 vehicles.
Tesla is expanding its product lineup in an effort to boost local demand. Information released last week by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showed that a new Model Y variant has a range of 659 kilometers and is expected to be a performance version.
