BEIJING : U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Monday it had built a research center and a separate data center in Shanghai, where it manufactures Model 3 sedans and Model Y sport-utility vehicles. The auto research and development center, Tesla’s first outside the United States, employs engineers for software, electronics, materials and charging, it said in a statement. The new data center for factory production will store Tesla’s operation data locally. Last month, China’s industry ministry published new draft measures that require companies to store important industry-related data locally. During a wide-reaching global semiconductor chip shortage over the...