Beds on the factory floor and mobile toilets: a peek at Tesla’s ‘closed loop’ gauntlet to get Shanghai’s Gigafactory back on track
- Workers must be quarantined for between 48 and 72 hours to meet government requirements to join others already inside the factory “bubble,” people said
- Employees in the first shift have been sleeping on the floor of the Gigafactory itself since mid-April, working 12-hour stints, six days a week, to revive production
The workers need to be quarantined for between 48 and 72 hours to meet government requirements to be able to join other employees already inside the factory “bubble,” according to people familiar with the situation.
Once the two batches of staff are joined together they will be housed in the campsite and vacant factories close to Tesla’s plant fitted with mobile toilets and shower facilities, the people said, asking not to be identified because the plans are private. They’ll be shuttled each day from the temporary accommodation to the manufacturing site in special buses.
Employees currently in the first shift have been sleeping on the floor of the Gigafactory itself since mid-April, working 12-hour stints, six days a week, to revive production after the three-week total shutdown.
A representative for Tesla in China said no further updates could be shared as yet regarding the factory’s status.