October 22, with the release of an overseas news, Tesla in China once again become the focus of public opinion. Netcom learned from overseas media, Tesla has reached an agreement with Shanghai, in the city's free trade area opened a Manufacturing plant, which will further reduce production costs and reduce vehicle prices in China.
At present, the truth of this information or not, and domestic details still need to further verify, so Netcom on 'Tesla, Shanghai Free Trade Area, the construction of the three core issues slightly start, analyze if the information is true, Why in this construction.
In fact, Tesla wants to build factories in China is not difficult, there are many ways to achieve, such as with the Chinese car manufacturers (or non-car manufacturers) to establish a joint venture, which is one of the easiest way, but the problem After the establishment of a joint venture, Tesla is bound to 'as required' to produce part of the manufacturing technology and patent projects and other enterprises more core content, and as the world's largest manufacturer of pure electric vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not want to let This happens, or does not want to happen in such a way.
So Tesla has no time to build factories in China, the biggest reason may also because you want to preserve their own technology as much as possible, patent and other manufacturing advantages are not completely 'leaked'. Back to the question, why now 'Tesla will In the Shanghai Free Trade Area to establish a factory 'this information? Perhaps with the country issued a document in the middle of this year.
In June this year, China officially released the "free trade pilot area foreign investment access special management measures (negative list) (2017 edition)", compared to the previous version (2015 version) reduced by 10 entries, 27 measures, negative The list is reduced to 100 or less, and these are mainly concentrated in the manufacturing and service industries, one of the most critical is to cancel the 'new pure electric passenger car production enterprises to produce their own products, with independent intellectual property rights and has Authorized relevant invention patent '.
This also means that to a certain extent, foreign companies to build factories in China to retain its own brand and many independent intellectual property rights and other core content, and this is precisely the most urgent needs of Tesla 'Shangfang sword' for Tesla Full access to China to provide possible, and this is also revealed by foreign media 'Tesla will be in Shanghai FTA construction' information match.
Therefore, Netcom will speculate that Tesla will apply for the establishment of assembly plant in Shanghai Free Trade Area in accordance with the provisions of the Measures for the Administration of Foreign Investment in the Free Trade Zone and the Special Management Measures for Foreign Investment in Foreign Trade Enterprises.
However, even if the assembly plant is established in this way, the models produced by Tesla are likely to enter China with export attributes, and still contain 25% of the tariff. Based on this, Tesla will also pay to the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs (Honda Automobile (China) Co., Ltd.), although the two companies have different product types, but the overall size of the two companies, but the overall application of the new energy vehicles, Enterprise attributes are consistent, so this case has great significance.
In April, Elon Musk communicated in depth with Vice Premier Wang Yang in Beijing and the news from Tesla's official release. 'By the end of this year, the localization plan of the car company will be clearer', perhaps this time The model 3 will be delivered to the Chinese market at the end of the year or next year, and in the future Tesla also prepared a number of products, for the Chinese market, Tesla must win.