On March 20, 2026, it was reported that Tesla plans to purchase $2.9 billion worth of photovoltaic production equipment from China, with a contract scale reaching the gigawatt level, to meet Musk's goal of building 100GW of solar manufacturing capacity in the United States. Suzhou Maxwell Technologies is one of the primary candidate suppliers, with Jiejia Weichuang and Laplace also in negotiations.
