Tesla Shanghai factory achieves milestone with 2 mln cars produced

STORY: Tesla Shanghai factory achieves milestone with 2 mln cars produced DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:20 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Tesla's Shanghai plant 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SONG GANG, Senior director of manufacturing at Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai 3. various of the production of cars 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LU YU, Official with the Lin-gang special area administration STORYLINE: Tesla says its Shanghai factory achieved the milestone of 2 million cars produced on Wednesday. Tesla's Shanghai plant, the carmaker's first gigafactory outside the United States, turned out the first vehicle in December 2019. The factory produced its first 1 million cars in over 30 months, and its second 1 million in less than 13 months. Song Gang, the plant's senior director of manufacturing, says Tesla has grown rapidly thanks to the complete new energy vehicle (NEV) industry cluster in the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai's magnetism for global high-end tal