ANALYSIS: Why Beijing Approved Tesla Cars for Use as Government Vehicles in China

Local Chinese authorities have expanded their Tesla brand acquisition.

Visitors wearing face masks check a China-made Tesla Model Y sport utility vehicle (SUV) at the electric vehicle maker's showroom in Beijing on Jan. 5, 2021. Tingshu Wang/Reuters

Tesla’s electric cars were recently added to government procurement lists in the eastern coastal areas such as Shanghai and Jiangsu Province.

One China analyst told The Epoch Times that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is giving Tesla special treatment because the regime wants to acquire the carmaker’s battery technology, which could alleviate production bottlenecks in Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).