Tesla Giga Shanghai is back to operating at full capacity: report

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Tesla Giga Shanghai is operating at full capacity once more. The update was posted by a Chinese media outlet which recently visited Tesla’s Shanghai-based Model 3 and Model Y production plant. 

Earlier this year, reports emerged suggesting that Tesla was throttling the vehicle production output of Giga Shanghai. Reuters even noted in late May that the electric vehicle maker was planning to cut at least 20% of the facility’s vehicle production in the March-June 2024 period. 

While Tesla China was quite silent about these reports, new vehicle registrations and exports this year did go below last year’s levels. With Tesla now in the third quarter, however, it would appear that the electric vehicle maker is looking to produce and deliver as many cars as it can before the end of the year. 

Elon Musk has noted that he believes Tesla’s vehicle sales this year could exceed last year’s. For this to happen, Giga Shanghai would likely need to be operating at full thrust. Fortunately, it appears that this is indeed the case. As per reporters from Jiemian News, who were given a tour of Giga Shanghai this month, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y factory is operating at full capacity. 

And in true Tesla fashion, Giga Shanghai is reportedly operating with high levels of automation. The facility’s general assembly reportedly features stacked production areas, and since Giga Shanghai’s workshops are connected, finished parts can be moved around easily. To date, Giga Shanghai reportedly has a 95% automation rate across the facility, and the welding area is almost 100% automated. 

Tesla VP Grace Tao also shared some updates about the upcoming Shanghai Megafactory during the reporters’ visit as well. Tao noted that the Shanghai Megafactory is on track to be completed in 2025, as per Sina Finance News. This aligns with most recent reports about the facility, which will be producing the company’s flagship energy product, the Megapack grid-scale battery. 

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Tesla planning to ship dry electrode 4680 cells by end of 2024: report

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A recent report from China has suggested that Tesla is planning to start the mass production of the complete version of its long-awaited and highly-anticipated 4680 battery, which was initially unveiled in September 2020 during Battery Day. The complete version of the 4680 cells will reportedly be produced using Tesla’s dry electrode process. 

Citing people reportedly familiar with the matter, Chinese publication LatePost noted that Tesla is planning to mass produce and install 4680 cells with dry electrodes to consumer vehicles before the end of the year. As per the publication, this upcoming version of the 4680 cell would be the battery’s complete iteration.

LatePost‘s sources claimed that the 4680 cells in the Cybertruck today feature a lower-cost negative electrode and a more costly positive electrode. This is reportedly because the negative electrode in the Cybertruck’s current 4680 cells is produced using Tesla’s dry electrode process, but the batteries’ positive electrode is purchased from suppliers like LG and thus produced using more conventional wet electrode processes. 

The dry-process positive electrode is reportedly the most difficult part of the 4680 batteries for now, LatePost noted. The positive electrode is also the component that reportedly has the highest cost share in the batteries themselves for now, exceeding 35% of the cells’ overall cost. 

Tesla has reportedly finalized the design of the 4680 cells’ dry-process positive electrode, which is a notable step towards the mass production of the batteries’. One of the publication’s sources, who is reportedly a Tesla insider, noted that mastering dry electrode processes could give Tesla some serious momentum. “Once dry electrodes are developed, they can change Tesla,” LatePost‘s source claimed. 

Tesla already uses 4680 cells for the Cybertruck, though the output of the batteries for now is reportedly enough for just about 1,000 units of the all-electric pickup truck per week. The Tesla Cybertruck will reportedly be the recipient of the complete version of the 4680 battery cell as well. Once the output of the 4680 cells are optimized, it would not be surprising if the dry electrode batteries also get rolled out to the company’s other vehicles. 

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Tesla adds a new game, updated skins, and more to its Arcade

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In its latest software update, Tesla has added a new game to its Arcade, along with a few other gaming-related improvements and features.

Tesla’s software update 2024.26.1 was spotted by Not a Tesla App on Monday, including the full Castle Doombad Classic game that was previously only a demo. The game is only available for those with AMD Ryzen-based vehicles (MCU 3), and the full release follows the demo’s initial debut last December.

Along with the full Castle Doombad game, Tesla has added an update to one skin in the Battle of Polytopia game, which lets users summon demons from gravesites and build graves and crypts. In Vampire Survivors, Tesla has also debuted a new update with a new character, new stages and weapons, and more.

Tesla adding racing game leaderboards at Superchargers with next update

The release includes more than just gaming updates, including the addition of Amazon Music, new parental controls, a status bar weather condition display, scheduled charges and pre-conditioning sessions, and a new navigation feature.

It also saw the removal of the YouTube Music app, after it had been spotted in testing with the introduction of 2024.26. The update also has a new climate panel that has yet to be seen, as well as small updates like Zoom meetings defaulting to full-screen and an automatically-decreasing fan speed feature when on a call.

You can see Tesla’s gaming-related release notes for 2024.26.1 below:

Castle Doombad Classic goes from demo to full game

Credit: Tesla (via Not a Tesla App)

The Castle Doombad demo has been replaced with the full version release of Castle Doombad Classic! Featuring full touch support and packed with more than 70 new levels and endless content, challenge yourself in this trap-based tower defense game against hordes of goody-two-shoed heroes invading your castle.

To play, shift into Park (P), and go to Arcade > Castle Doombad Classic.

The Battle of Polytopia gets a skin update

∑∫ỹriȱŋ ₼idŋighţ Skin Update – Create graves, build crypts, and summon demons from the graves in the dark forests with the special ∑∫ỹriȱŋ ₼idŋighţ skin.

Vampire Survivors update adds a new character and more

Vampire Survivors “Laborratory” Update – Discover the secrets to dark mysteries with a new character, power-up, achievements, stages, and weapons.

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