A power shortage in southwestern China’s Sichuan province is disrupting car production in Shanghai, just as the mainland’s carmaking heartland was recovering from a two-month lockdown. The outages have hit output at Tesla ’s Gigafactory and SAIC Motor, the mainland’s largest home-grown carmaker, because of the impact on the industry’s supply chain. The companies have enlisted the help of the Shanghai government to support its vendors in Sichuan. The Shanghai Commission of Economy and Information Technology has requested authorities in Sichuan to prioritise power supply to 16 key automotive supply-chain vendors that have business ties with Tesla and SAIC, according…