A strikingly positive message in the otherwise very disappointing sales figures of recent times. Tesla has delivered a record number of cars in the past quarter.
Tesla has announced that it has delivered 139,300 cars worldwide in the past three months. With that, the American manufacturer surpasses its previous record of 112,000 cars. That reports Automotive News. The previous record dates from the last quarter of last year. Although this year is a lot more challenging due to the crisis and new car sales in most of the world have slumped, Tesla is going against that trend.
The market launch of the Model Y earlier this year obviously plays an important role in this success. The fact that sales of new cars in China rebounded strongly after the dip in the spring also helps. Tesla has managed to tap an important market in China. A few weeks ago, CEO Elon Musk urged his employees to go the extra mile to go for a quarterly record. So we succeeded. Now it will be a matter of whether Tesla will also succeed in meeting Musk’s other goal, the production of 500,000 cars in the second half of 2020.