The EV maker has for more than a year negotiated with the government to allow it to gauge demand by rolling out EVs shipped from US and China at lower tariffs
Export volume from Shanghai is almost back to normal as carmakers prioritize them over domestic shipments.
The US carmaker shipped over 4,700 electric vehicles to Europe on Wednesday, its first exports from the city in almost a month, state media said.
The halt in production is the latest in a series of difficulties the factory faces as Shanghai enters a sixth week of lockdowns
President Joko Widodo is keen to meet Tesla chief Elon Musk during an upcoming US visit, the minister said, as the Southeast Asian country seeks to rev up its nickel industry
Workers overwhelmed security guards at Taiwan-based Quanta's plant in Shanghai, which employs 40,000 people, some of whom live in dormitories with up to 12 beds to a room
Internal memo outlines plans to add more shifts to boost production to pre-lockdown levels even as suppliers struggle to provide parts.
According to an internal memo, the US carmaker plans to churn out 2,600 electric cars from the Shanghai plant per day from May 16
About 8,000 Tesla employees returned to work at the US company's Shanghai giga-factory on April 19, the Miami-based EV news website said
The once-booming electric vehicle market has been hit hard and Nomura Holdings says the country's hardline Covid policy has put the economy on the brink of recession.
Tesla will recall 14,684 Model 3 cars that were locally made or imported between 2019 and March 2022 to fix a software problem, China's market regulator said.
“No further TSLA sales planned after today," Musk wrote on Twitter after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filings became public on Thursday evening