Do all Tesla Shanghai profits stay in China?

Will Tesla ever be able to repatriate any profits earned in China to the United States?

How many Tesla automobiles made in China are sold in China versus exported abroad, and if Tesla has 4 factories currently producing Tesla automobiles, what percentage of total Teslas manufactured by the 4 Tesla factories does China production represent?

If parts and labor are the cheapest in China, and Tesla China exports automobiles abroad, what percentage of Tesla profits are from China?

Does the economics of Tesla China force Tesla USA to produce Tesla robotaxis in lieu of automobiles?

Or will tge PRC CCP encourage Tesla to source robotaxi design and production in Shanghai?

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Ralph Nader
Tesla’s major deployment of so-called Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology is one of the most dangerous and irresponsible actions by a car company in decades. See full statement.

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Everybody knows the Tesla has poor quality cameras. And that Elon Musk promised they would make FSD work with the existing cameras. So he is motivated by pride to make that happen, but there is another reason.

If at some point they conclude they need better cameras (or worse, LIDAR) they will need to retrofit the cars of everybody who paid for FSD. That will be expensive and they definitely prefer not to do it and to only do it once. (New customers can be charged a price that covers this extra cost.)

So the motive is to keep trying to make it work until the day it becomes clear a better camera is required. That will probably be the day that other people are making it work with better sensors and they have to stop trying to do it. Otherwise, why not keep trying?

Unfortunately the consequence is that they will try hard to make it work with poor cameras, which is not the path to maximum performance.

On the other hand, this does not justify not putting better cameras in new models being shipped, as that would not be that expensive. But those better cameras would be a "crutch" that would let the team tempted to make it work with just those.

I don't see it working with the existing cameras. Only the front ones have any way to clean them, and they often get dirty or rain covered or blinded. The blindspot cameras are blinded by the turn signals at night to a large degree. You can do so much better now. No other team would hesitate to be using the best cameras they can get. BT