Tesla's success in China has demonstrated that equal cooperation and mutual benefits conform to the fundamental interests of China and the United States, Premier Li Qiang said in a meeting on 28th of April, with Elon Musk, CEO of the U.S. electric car maker.
The company said the figure was a 33 percent increase from the previous year. It added that more than half of the over 1.8 million electric vehicles Tesla globally delivered last year came from the Shanghai plant.
Tesla has established a data center in China for localized data storage, and all data generated from its vehicles sold in the Chinese mainland market will be stored within China.
U.S. carmaker Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory has achieved a new monthly delivery record of over 83,000 vehicles in September, the company said on Monday.
Statistics showed NEVs accounted for 35 percent in local Chinese brands' sales in August, and their proportion hit 24 percent of premium vehicle sales, but the figure was a meager 2.7 percent in the volume of international brands.