In this articleTSLAEmployees work at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 20, 2020. U.S. electric car company Tesla in 2019 built its first Gigafactory outside the United States in the new Lingang area, with a designed annual production capacity of 500,000 units.Ding Ting | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesTesla reduced vehicle production