The 5 million car of Tesla has been offline.

According to news from CTOnews.com on September 17, Tesla officially announced that a total of 5 million cars had been produced as of this week, about six months after the 4 million car went offline.

Tesla currently has four factories producing cars, two of which are located in the United States, Fremont, California and Austin, Texas. In addition, Tesla has two super factories in Shanghai, China and Berlin, Germany.

It is worth mentioning that the 2 million Chinese Smart Tesla vehicle from the Shanghai Super Factory just went offline on September 6. Tesla said that Tesla Shanghai super factory off the line of a complete vehicle, less than 40 seconds, the vehicle left the production line whistle 2, on behalf of the completion of the assembly.

According to Tesla, 99.9 per cent of the Shanghai super factories are Chinese employees, and the localization rate of parts in the Shanghai super factories is more than 95 per cent. The vertical purchasing mode is adopted to avoid "middlemen earning price differences".

In addition, Tesla also plans to build new factories outside the United States in the next few years and continue to expand the scope of production. CTOnews.com has reported that the carmaker announced plans to build a new plant in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon earlier this year, and that Tesla is considering building a plant in India.