The US firm faced a difficult year with unease over chief executive Elon Musk’s political activities and stiff overseas competition.
The US firm faced a difficult year with unease over chief executive Elon Musk’s political activities and stiff overseas competition.
You’re not wrong they helped by being there which set up a supply chain, but Tesla wants to use a hyper localized supply chain regardless of requirements. Localized supply chains get costs down, which is partly how they managed higher margins than other legacy OEMs
They do it in the USA and EU as well.
Edit: also I’m sure China was able to spy on them once there and share info with other Chinese OEMs