Tesla Will Shut Down Manufacturing At The Texas Gigafactory Over The 4th Of July Weekend – Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Tesla Inc. TSLA will shut down manufacturing on the Texas Gigafactory, which manufactures the Cybertruck and the Mannequin Y, over the Independence Day weekend.

What Occurred: The deliberate shutdown would start on June 30, which was determined after a gathering with staff on the manufacturing facility. All manufacturing actions would start the next week, Enterprise Insider reported on Tuesday.

The report means that the halt would assist Tesla perform some upkeep work on its manufacturing line. That is the third such halt of manufacturing strains previously 12 months at Elon Musk’s EV big.

The corporate has advised the workers that they will use their paid break day or are available for voluntary coaching and cleansing in the course of the manufacturing shutdown, the report stated.

Why It Issues: Information of the manufacturing shutdown comes as Tesla is gearing as much as roll out the Robotaxi in Austin on June 22, with CEO Elon Musk saying that Tesla autos would drive proper as much as clients’ homes beginning June 28.

Tesla is a key participant within the U.S. autonomous driving sector, as the corporate, with current information suggesting that the corporate’s value for the robotaxi is 1/7 that of Robotaxi rival Alphabet Inc.‘s GOOGL GOOG Waymo.

Nonetheless, regardless of developments within the self-driving taxi sector in addition to autonomous driving as a complete, Tesla remains to be coping with falling gross sales figures all through the globe.