Tesla’s five major suppliers include Xusheng Co., Ltd., Tuopu Group, Sanhua Intelligent Control, Huachangda, and Zhongke Sanhuan.
1. Xusheng Shares
is a first-tier supplier to Tesla, and Tesla is the company’s largest customer. The company is based on the mold processing business and gradually extends to the aluminum die-casting business. The cooperation with Tesla began in 2013. At first, the company entered its supply chain through small batch customization. Later, it continued to deepen the cooperation and supplied Tesla with products such as gearbox cases and battery pack casings.
2. Top Group?
The company has developed from nvh business to lightweight chassis and automotive electronics business. The layout of forged aluminum control arms is earlier, and the products are more traditional cast iron and cast steel. , Steel plate stamping control arms are lighter, have better mechanical properties, and are better environmentally friendly. In August 2016, the company announced that it had officially become a Tesla supplier, supplying two forged aluminum control arms and chassis structural parts to Tesla.
3. Sanhua Intelligent Control
The company is a global leader in refrigeration control components and has entered the field of new energy vehicle thermal management. The company's electronic expansion valves, four-way reversing valves, and microchannel heat exchangers have the largest market share in the world, and the market share of stop valves is second in the world; the market share of automotive thermal expansion valves ranks first in the country and second in the world. SANHUA Automotive exclusively supplies 7 thermal management parts items for model 3, including thermal expansion valve with solenoid valve, electronic expansion valve, electronic oil pump, oil cooler, water cooling plate, battery cooler, and pressure block.
4. Huachangda
In February 2015, the company acquired Dearborn Mid-West Company, LLC100 equity. DMW is a material management system provider in the United States that specializes in providing automobile production lines. One of the largest automotive intelligent equipment system integrators in the United States, its main customers include Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, and its latest customers include Toyota, Nissan, Tesla, etc.
5. Zhongke Sanhuan
In October 2016, it signed a main drive motor order with Tesla and will provide NdFeB magnets to Tesla in the next three years; currently The amorphous nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials produced by the company's joint-stock companies are used in Tesla cars.