China Factory Related News

[sunny-value]

Has anyone seen this or any related news?

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It claims there are issues with the next phase of permission due to government investigation of fire safety issues.

 

[anon]

If it's true, I imagine it's just a bad excuse to slow down an American company as part of the trade war.

It doesn't make sense to delay permission for the factory because of an investigation into Model S fire safety - if they were concerned, they would block existing imports or sales, not future local production of a different model that is currently available from US production anyway.
Having said that, I suppose local financing providers might want to wait for the investigation outcome.

 

[LN1_Casey]

Yeah, I agree that it's probably a fake reason to slow down production as a retaliation against an American company. Especially since the factory being constructed would have little to do with the investigation. Even if Tesla is super dangers (which it's obviously not), than the building is still a building that should be built due to the contracts implemented for it's construction. It may not ever produce anything, but the building would still be built.