Tesla China partners with local university for its “I Want to Go to College” program

On January 14, Tao Lin, Tesla China Vice President, shared on Chinese social media that 85 employees from the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory were admitted to the Shanghai University of Electric Power after passing the 2024 adult college entrance examination as part of Tesla China’s “I Want to Go to College” program.

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Tesla has cooperated with the Shanghai University of Electric Power since 2021 to launch the “I Want to Go to College” program, according to Lin. This program will continue to be open for registration without any threshold, and all Tesla front-line employees can participate. Currently, nearly 700 employees with prior high school and vacation school degrees have graduated from this program.

Tesla announced the construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory in 2018 with a total investment of 50 billion yuan (6.82 billion USD) and a planned annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles. At the time, it was the first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturing project in China. In January 2019, the foundation of the Gigafactory was laid, and the first vehicle rolled off the assembly line in December of that year. In August 2022, the one-millionth vehicle rolled off the assembly line, then the two-millionth vehicle in September 2023, followed by the three-millionth vehicle in October 2024. Currently, the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory is the world’s highest-capacity vehicle super factory.

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Also in March last year, Tesla became the first company in the world to break the 6 million pure electric vehicle production mark, in which the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory contributed nearly half of the production capacity.

In the Chinese market, Tesla sold 657,000 vehicles in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%. Specifically in December, Tesla China’s sales in China rose by 12.8% from the previous month, setting a monthly record high of 83.000 vehicles.

Source: Tao Lin Weibo