Tesla Enters Loan Agreements With China Lenders for Shanghai Gigafactory
27 December 2019 - 10:12AM
Dow Jones News
By Dave Sebastian
Tesla Inc. (TSLA) on Thursday said its Tesla (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
subsidiary entered into loan agreements this month with lenders in
China for its Gigafactory Shanghai.
The agreements comprise a secured term loan facility of up to 9
billion Chinese yuan ($1.286 billion) and an unsecured revolving
loan facility of up to CNY2.25 billion, Tesla said.
Tesla said it repaid on Dec. 20 its subsidiary's drawn amounts
on an existing bridge-loan facility of up to CNY3.5 billion using
proceeds from one of its new facilities.
The lenders include China Construction Bank Corp., Agricultural
Bank of China Shanghai Changning sub-branch, Shanghai Pudong
Development Bank Co. Ltd. and the Industrial & Commercial Bank
of China Ltd.
Proceeds of the loans will be used for expenditures related to
the construction of and production at the plant or to repay Tesla
Shanghai's outstanding debt, Tesla said.
Tesla shares, which raced this week past the symbolic threshold
of $420 a share, closed 1.34% higher Thursday at $430.94.
Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com
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