While most of the auto industry saw a significant drop in deliveries in 2020 due to the pandemic and subsequent chip shortages, Tesla managed to grow at an impressive pace. In fact, Tesla has had 9 quarters of delivery growth in a row since 2020. This makes the company completely unique in the volume car industry. The automaker has managed to navigate both restrictions and limitations due to the pandemic and turn to alternatives to avoid most of the chip shortage. It’s not that Tesla has been completely unaffected, it’s been a tough time, but the quarter didn’t show it. In Q2 2022, it finally reopened the automaker as COVID-19 restrictions in Shanghai forced the automaker to close its plant for a significant portion of the quarter. Most industry analysts put estimates for Tesla’s second-quarter delivery between 250,000 and 270,000 units — or about 50,000 units below the previous quarter’s all-time high.
Tesla Q2 2022 Production and Delivery Results
Today, Tesla released its production and delivery results for the second quarter of 2022 and confirmed that the estimates were mostly correct. The automaker confirmed 254,695 deliveries during the quarter and production of 258,580 vehicles: Production Deliveries Subject to operating lease accounting Model S/X 16,411 16,162 12% Model 3/Y 242,169 238,533 3% Total 258,580 254,695 4% In a brief results press release, Tesla confirmed that “supply chain challenges and factory shutdowns” led to its first quarterly decline in 2 years. Interestingly, Tesla also reported that June 2022 was the company’s best month ever for vehicle production: “In the second quarter, we built over 258,000 vehicles and delivered over 254,000 vehicles, despite ongoing supply chain challenges and plant shutdowns beyond our control. June 2022 was the highest month of vehicle production in Tesla’s history.” We reported that Tesla recently managed to dramatically increase production at the Texas Gigafactory. The automaker is also increasing production capacity at each of its production facilities. Tesla aims to have 4 factories with a production capacity of over half a million vehicles per year within the next 12 months. That’s more all-electric vehicles than any other automaker can produce. FTC: We use affiliate links that automatically earn you income. More. Subscribe to Electrek on YouTube for exclusive videos and subscribe to the podcast.
