The opening of the $200 million Megapack battery plant in Shanghai highlights Elon Musk’s unusual position as Tesla CEO and Trump administration adviser.

Tesla's battery megafactory in Shanghai, for manufacturing its megapack batteries, has launched production on Tuesday, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said.

Storyline Tesla's Megafactory in Shanghai begins production of Megapack batteries (Voice_over) Tesla's new Megafactory, which produces energy storage products, officially went into production. The Shanghai facility is Tesla's first Megafactory outside the United States and marks another major investment in China following the Gigafactory Shanghai car manufacturing plant.

Tesla officially began the construction of the Shanghai megafactory in May, taking less than a year from the start of construction to commencing production.

U.S. carmaker Tesla's new Megafactory in Shanghai, dedicated to manufacturing energy-storage batteries known as Megapacks, launched production on Tuesday, marking a significant expansion of the company's presence in China.

After nine months of construction, Tesla's Megapack battery factory in Shanghai went into operation on February 11, with significant importance for both the US-based electric carmaker and China's massive energy storage industry. The launch of the new plant was a bright spot in a week of woes for Tesla.

Tesla is to expand its presence in Australia with a “re-manufacturing” facility to be built at Collie in Western Australia’s southwest to service its grid-scale and residential battery energy storage products.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has officially started production at its Shanghai battery megafactory, dedicated to manufacturing its high-capacity Megapack energy storage systems, according to Chinas state news agency,