Tesla’s deliveries increased despite supply shortages and plant closures

Tesla delivered 310,048 automobiles over the primary three months of 2022, the automaker on Saturday. “This was an exceptionally troublesome quarter on account of provide chain interruptions and China Zero-Covid coverage,” Musk on Twitter shortly after Tesla shared the information.

Final month noticed the corporate droop manufacturing at its , its largest manufacturing facility, twice. Regardless of these hiccups, the 310,048 automobiles Tesla delivered in Q1 symbolize a 68 p.c year-on-year enhance from Q1 2021 when the corporate shipped roughly 184,400 automobiles. In line with Tesla, the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y made up the vast majority of its deliveries in Q1 2022, with 295,324 of these automobiles making their option to shoppers because the begin of the yr. Over the identical timeframe, the corporate produced 305,407 automobiles, a not insignificant feat when you think about the provision chain points which have affected Tesla and plenty of different automakers.  

Q1 additionally noticed Tesla transport automobiles from its $5.5 billion Gigafactory in Grenheide, Germany. The corporate plans to finally produce 500,000 automobiles per yr from the plant.