Tesla delivers record number of cars

In the first quarter of this year, Tesla delivered 422,875 new cars worldwide. The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y accounted for the bulk of that by far. No fewer than 412,180 were Model 3 or Model Y. The remaining 10,695 Teslas were Model S or Model X. According to analysts, this is the fourth quarter in a row that Tesla has built more cars than it has delivered. In the first three months of this year, Tesla produced 440,808 cars. The majority of these were also a Model Y or Model 3 (421,371 units). The remaining 19,437 new Teslas built were a Model S or Model X.

The nearly 423,000 new cars that Tesla delivered in the first quarter were 36 percent more than in the first quarter of 2022, the number of Teslas produced in the first three months of this year was 44 percent higher than the number of cars Tesla produced in the first quarter produced last year. If we look at the last quarter of 2022, the number of Teslas delivered was a modest 4 percent higher last quarter, despite the fact that Tesla implemented heavy price reductions on the Model 3 and Model Y, among others. According to news agency Reuters, the number of Teslas shipped last quarter is in line with predictions from Wall Street analysts, but the number of deliveries is slightly below what analysts from FactSet and Refinitiv predicted.

In the first three months of 2023, Tesla delivered 4,476 cars in the Netherlands. Of these, 838 were a Model 3 and no less than 3,507 a Tesla Model Y. So far, 85 and 46 copies of the Model S and Model X have been delivered in our country this year.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicated last year that it is committed to delivering 2 million cars by 2023. That is 52 percent more than Tesla delivered in 2022. Later this month, Tesla will publish its financial results for the first quarter of this year.