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Production specialist behind Shanghai gigafactory may help the firm to capitalise on US electric car grants

Tesla has drafted in a top executive to bolster efforts to ramp up production at its Texas gigafactory, a new report has claimed. 

Citing insider sources, Bloomberg reported that Tom Zhu – Tesla’s chief executive for China – travelled to Austin, Texas with a team of engineers to oversee the plant's development.

Zhu, who joined Tesla in 2014, previously oversaw the Shanghai gigafactory project. More than 100,000 cars built at Shanghai were shipped in November alone. Texas,

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