Exclusive-Tesla to resume shipping Chinese parts for Cybercab, Semi production in the US, source says

Reuters

Tue, May 13, 2025, 10:09 PM 2 min read

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Tesla plans to commencement shipping components from China to the U.S. for the accumulation of Cybercab and Semi trucks from the extremity of this month, aft the U.S. and China reached a truce implicit tariffs, said a idiosyncratic with nonstop knowledge.

The move, being reported by Reuters for the archetypal time, illustrates however the de-escalation of the commercialized warfare betwixt the world's 2 largest economies, pursuing talks successful Geneva implicit the weekend, is having an contiguous interaction connected concern activity.

Reuters reported past period that Tesla had suspended plans to vessel the components aft U.S. President Donald Trump raised tariffs connected Chinese goods to 145%, perchance disrupting Tesla's program to commencement wide accumulation of the much-anticipated models.

The truce announced connected Monday saw the U.S. and China hold to rotation backmost the bulk of tariffs and different countermeasures.

The source, however, added that the concern could inactive change, citing the Trump administration's unpredictability. They declined to beryllium named arsenic the substance was confidential.

Tesla didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Tesla aims to commencement proceedings accumulation of the 2 models successful October and wide accumulation successful 2026, with the Cybercab to beryllium produced successful Texas and Semi successful Nevada, Reuters antecedently reported.

Tesla has been seeking approvals from authorities governments for a robotaxi work utilizing a fleet of Cybercabs with nary steering instrumentality oregon power pedals. It unveiled the conception successful October and promised to commencement gathering the conveyance by 2026 astatine a terms of little than $30,000.

Tesla besides plans to ramp up accumulation of its Semi trucks successful 2026 and accelerate deliveries of long-overdue orders to customers including PepsiCo.

Trump's tariffs, which were meant to boost U.S. manufacturing, wounded his governmental ally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has repeatedly voiced his enactment for escaped commercialized and objections to tariffs.

Last month, Musk told analysts connected a first-quarter net telephone that helium pushed for little tariffs to Trump but that the determination was yet up to the U.S. President.

Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla main fiscal officer, told the aforesaid telephone that tariffs were besides hurting superior investments arsenic Tesla had to bring instrumentality from extracurricular the U.S., peculiarly from China, to grow home accumulation lines.

(Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Kate Mayberry)