"For six days off and one day off, 300 (yuan) subsidy will be given for work and 100 (yuan) subsidy for rest." After the difficult resumption of work, Tesla began to spend money to promote production. After more than 20 days of shutdown, Tesla finally successfully completed the resumption of work on April 19. Although Tesla quickly resumed production in the rest of April, throughout April, Tesla only handed over the dismal sales of 1512 new cars.
After entering may, Tesla still maintained the rhythm of resumption of production, and even had previously decided to return to the pre epidemic production rhythm from May 16.
However, the house leak happened to rain at night. According to insiders, Tesla has started a new shutdown since May 9 due to the infection of supply chain enterprises.
This has been Tesla's third shutdown in recent months. As early as March, Tesla stopped production for two days on the 16th and 17th respectively because of epidemic nucleic acid detection and other epidemic prevention requirements.
At the end of March, due to the impact of the overall epidemic prevention policy, Tesla Shanghai factory had the longest shutdown since its establishment, with a total shutdown of 22 days.
In this process, both the Shanghai municipal government and Tesla are actively preparing for the resumption of work. The government has also introduced many measures to help Tesla and other enterprises resume production, and enterprises have also made a lot of preparations for the resumption of work.
So, what policies does the Shanghai municipal government provide to ensure that enterprises return to work? What preparations did Tesla make to return to work? Is the resumption of work smooth at present?
1、 The Shanghai government has actively promoted many enterprises to successfully complete the resumption of work
Like other enterprises, Tesla also stopped work during the epidemic.
Since there is no dormitory area in the park, Tesla employees mainly live in the community around the factory. After the closure of Pudong in Shanghai, these employees were sealed in the community.
According to the closure policy at that time, Pudong will be closed for about 4 days, and Tesla is expected to resume work on April 1 or 2. However, with the new sealing policy, Tesla did not return to work on time.
Finally, a turnaround was ushered in on the evening of April 16. The Shanghai Municipal Commission of economy and information technology issued a "white list", allowing 666 enterprises to restart on April 20, or obtain the guarantee of starting work. This list includes the vast majority of auto companies, including Tesla.
The relevant person in charge of Shanghai Municipal Commission of economy and information technology introduced the deployment of Shanghai's resumption of work and production: "Shanghai will take the leading enterprises as the traction, take the point with the chain, and orderly drive the whole industrial chain to cooperate in the resumption of work and production." In terms of automobiles, SAIC and Tesla are leading enterprises.
▲ screenshot of the official website of Shanghai Municipal Commission of economy and information technology
In order to ensure that enterprises can resume work safely and efficiently, the Shanghai municipal government has also made many targeted measures.
According to the official website of the Management Committee of Shanghai Lingang New Film District, in order to support and ensure the production and operation of enterprises, it has formulated a "one enterprise one plan" and equipped with measures of "one enterprise one specialist".
According to this plan, the Management Committee of Lingang New Area also has commissioners stationed in Tesla's Shanghai factory. Tesla also disclosed in the previous thank-you letter that the government staff carried out day and night preparations for three consecutive days to ensure that the workers of Tesla's Shanghai factory can return to the factory smoothly.
After the enterprise realizes the closed management of resumption of work and production, it also needs to carry out nucleic acid detection services on a regular basis. The government is responsible for providing unified nucleic acid testing services and conducting nucleic acid testing through the market. However, the government will also give 50% subsidy support for three months.
In other words, the government will provide half of the cost of nucleic acid testing in the last three months.
For the personnel in the factory, the corresponding nucleic acid and antigen detection requirements shall be carried out according to the "three areas" of the area where the enterprise is located. The enterprises in the sealed area shall be tested twice a day, and both antigen and nucleic acid testing shall be done; Enterprises in the control area shall carry out antigen detection every day and nucleic acid detection once every two days; Enterprises in the prevention zone shall carry out antigen detection every day and nucleic acid detection every 5 days. At the same time, the government also supports enterprises above a certain scale to train exclusive nucleic acid samplers.
In terms of talents, the measures given by the Management Committee of Lingang New film area are: unblock the employment channels of talents, give employment service subsidies to human resources service institutions that transport stable employees to enterprises in the new film area, carry out campus recruitment activities, open up an online talent market, and encourage enterprises affected by the epidemic to carry out online vocational skills training.
Through the overall closed-loop management, realize "epidemic free factory" and "epidemic free park".
On the premise of policy support and government assistance, Tesla officially resumed work on April 19. However, for Tesla, policy support is only the first step, and the subsequent challenges are obviously greater. There are certain difficulties in personnel control and supply chain.
▲ Tesla Shanghai plant (picture before the epidemic)
2、 8000 employees return to work, eat and live in the factory
After being ready to resume production in the early stage, the workers will come back to continue production.
According to Che Dongxi's understanding of Shanghai's epidemic prevention policy, employees of enterprises that have started work can return to work, but they need the enterprise to give the commencement certificate, and then the community will issue a certificate.
At the same time, only after these conditions are met can workers return to their posts smoothly, and after returning to their posts, they can not return to the community again before the end of the epidemic.
In the early stage of resumption of work, personnel cannot drive motor vehicles when they go out from the community, so the enterprise needs to send cars to pick up employees to their posts. Tesla also disclosed this information in the letter of thanks provided to the government.
A company under Lingang group arranged several buses to transport 6000 workers of Tesla and its suppliers to the factory and complete the disinfection work required to enter the factory.
▲ Tesla Shanghai plant (picture before the epidemic)
According to media reports, on April 19, employees with luggage reported to the factory, some employees were moving the frame of model 3, a small number of vehicles were moving in the factory, and vehicles waiting for delivery were placed in the factory.
The latest news shows that more than 8000 employees have arrived at Tesla's Shanghai factory, but most of them are still closed in their residential area.
After returning to the factory, employees need to conduct antigen self-test every morning and nucleic acid test at night. At the same time, the production area is strictly disinfected to ensure that the production environment is safe enough.
Since there is no dormitory inside the factory, Tesla has distributed mattresses and sleeping bags to employees, and employees sleep inside the factory. But Tesla will provide employees with showers and three meals a day.
In addition, according to the introduction of internal employees, Tesla will also provide subsidies to employees. Each person can get a subsidy of up to 300 yuan on weekdays and 100 yuan on rest days. Based on this standard, they can get a subsidy of 1900 yuan per week.
However, the specific amount of subsidy needs to be determined according to different positions and levels, and the amount of subsidy received by each person may be slightly different.
It is understood that Tesla's current motor production line and battery pack production line have been in full speed production, and the whole vehicle production line is gradually recovering. Employees adopt the production mode of working for six days and taking a day off, with a daily output of about 1200 vehicles.
▲ production workshop of Tesla Shanghai Super factory (picture before the epidemic)
Tesla information shows that throughout April, the output of Tesla's Shanghai factory was 10757 and the domestic wholesale volume was 1512. The remaining products are mainly used for export. Some vehicles are being transported to the Asia Pacific region, and a large number of products are also loaded in the near future and will be exported to Europe.
▲ some models are waiting for shipment at Shanghai Nangang
Obviously, although Tesla's Shanghai factory has resumed work, it still has not reached the production before the epidemic. Previously, media reported that Tesla plans to implement the two shift production mode from May 16, and try its best to restore its factory capacity to the previous level and increase the daily output of the factory to 2600 vehicles.
3、 The supply chain is the core, and the improvement of production capacity is still unclear
If you want to complete the resumption of work and production with high quality, you not only need the efforts of Tesla, but also the help of supply chain enterprises.
In the process of automobile production, as long as a part is not in place, the vehicle cannot complete mass production offline, so the resumption of work of supply chain enterprises is also very important.
Public data show that by the end of 2021, the localization rate of Tesla's Shanghai factory had reached 90%, and most parts were concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta, and some parts of the Yangtze River Delta were more or less affected by the epidemic and stopped production.
As for enterprises that have not stopped production, they are also unable to deliver parts to Shanghai due to the problem of logistics and transportation.
In response to this situation, Shanghai Lingang New film area has established a working group with Tesla to make one enterprise and one policy to ensure the efficient promotion of Tesla's resumption of work and production.
Under the promotion of the national joint prevention and control mechanism, Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province and Shanghai have made full cooperation, and the logistics support work in the Yangtze River Delta has begun to recover gradually; Cross provincial logistics transportation and cross-border logistics transportation are also advancing steadily, logistics channels are gradually restored, and a large number of finished vehicles are waiting to be sent at the port.
Lingang district government is promoting more than 100 parents' triangle and upstream and downstream suppliers of the city's industrial chain to resume work and production at the same time. At present, Tesla's supply chain has gradually run through.
▲ Junsheng electronic workers are stationed in the factory to ensure production
Nevertheless, Tesla's production is still unstable. As mentioned above, once there is a problem with a part, Tesla's production will come to a standstill again.
A few days ago, Tesla encountered a crisis.
On May 10, some media reported that Tesla Shanghai Super factory stopped production again due to supply chain problems. After that, some media further reported that the main reason for the shutdown was the shortage of wiring harnesses in ambofu. It was found that some workers in ambofu's Shanghai factory were infected with novel coronavirus and the supply was temporarily suspended.
The car also asked Tesla at the first time, and the other party's response was: if there is any relevant information, inform it synchronously at the first time.
Che Dongxi found an insider inside Tesla factory through relevant channels. He said that due to the infection of supplier employees, the material supply was not available, and the line was stopped yesterday (May 9).
At present, Tesla's return to work does not seem to be going smoothly. At least until the epidemic is completely stable, full-speed production will be affected to some extent.
Conclusion: Tesla hard to return to work
A sudden epidemic has left Shanghai silent for more than a month, and the Tesla factory located in Shanghai has inevitably been affected, shutting down for more than 20 days.
This has a great impact on Tesla. The Shanghai plant contributed more than half of the output in 2021, making it the largest plant of Tesla at present. Tesla's goal this year is to achieve the sales target of nearly 1.5 million vehicles worldwide, and the Shanghai plant is undoubtedly a major part of this plan.
In order to ensure the smooth realization of the plan, Tesla is also actively promoting the resumption of production and work. It has initially resumed work on April 19, but now nearly two-thirds of the employees are isolated at home. The factory is still unable to resume production at full speed, and it is even more difficult to reach the production capacity before the epidemic.
On the other hand, the instability of the supply chain is also a hidden danger. As long as there is a situation in a supply chain enterprise, Tesla's production cannot proceed smoothly.
But for Tesla, the consequences of continuous shutdown may be more serious. The resumption of work is still the road we have to choose, and we can only continue to promote the resumption of work.