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Tesla battery factory breaks ground

US carmaker Tesla Inc broke ground on a mega factory in Shanghai on Thursday to manufacture its energy-storage batteries, Megapacks, a project hailed by the company as a "milestone". The new plant spans an area of about 200,000 square meters, with a total investment of around 1.45 billion yuan ($203.94 million), according to the administration of Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

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