Shanghai: US Electric Carmaker Tesla plans to place a Chinese design center in Beijing, a government document issued by Capital Capital said.
Tesla said that in 2020 it planned to open a center like that in the country to make “Chinese style” vehicles but have not said where it will happen.
Last year, Reuters reported that the studio could be in Shanghai, where the factory was, or Beijing.
The Beijing City Government at the end of January made disclosures in the work report in which he registered the main projects for the city in 2022.
Briefly included a number of electrical vehicle facilities he said would push forward with this year’s construction, without giving further.
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Besides Tesla, he also mentioned the planned Xiaomi Corp car factory and Toyota motor fuel cell research center.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
Local media and the Wall Street Journal previously reported about the Beijing government documents.
Tesla started the shipping vehicle from its Shanghai factory at the end of 2019 and increased production in the middle of sales soaring.
This country is also an export center for Teslas to go to Europe and other markets.