Sina Tech News reported on the evening of February 9, Beijing time. According to reports,TeslaAccording to the 10-K filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the number of employees in the company has exceeded 70,000, an increase of nearly half last year alone.
Documents show that by the end of 2020,TeslaThe number of full-time employees worldwide reached 70,757, an increase of 47% compared to 4,8016 in 2019, mainly due to Tesla's expansion in the Chinese and German markets.
Tesla's Shanghai plant is the key to Tesla's expansion of business in China. Last year, Tesla's sales in China increased 124% to $6.7 billion. In addition to the original Model 3, Tesla began delivering Model Y models again in January of this year.
In addition, Tesla will build two new factories, located on the outskirts of Berlin in Germany and Texas in the US, respectively. The German plant mainly produces Model 3 and Model Y, and will become SLA's second overseas electric vehicle factory after the Shanghai plant, and the final annual output may reach 500,000 vehicles.
Meanwhile, the Texas plant will produce Tesla's first pickup truck. The Texas plant will be Tesla's fourth electric vehicle assembly plant after plants in California, Shanghai, and Berlin.