The electric car manufacturer Tesla has again set a delivery record. Despite supply chain problems, more cars were delivered in the first quarter of 2022 than in the last quarter of 2021.
Despite the global supply chain problems, the electric car manufacturer Tesla set another record for its deliveries in the first quarter of 2022.
The company, led by US billionaire Elon Musk, brought 310,048 vehicles to customers in the first three months of the year, as the company announced on Saturday (local time). That was almost 1,500 more than in the last quarter of 2021, when 308,600 vehicles were delivered. That was also a delivery record. In the whole of 2021, Tesla had delivered a good 936,000, an increase of 87 percent compared to 2020.
The pioneer in car electrification wants to maintain an annual increase in deliveries of at least 50 percent in the long term. The new factories in Grünheide near Berlin and in Texas should create the necessary capacities for this.
The Model 3 and Model Y compact cars continue to be the foundation of Tesla’s business. More than 295,300 of these vehicles were delivered in the first quarter, as Tesla announced. The more expensive and larger Model S and Model X cars made up the rest with more than 14,700.
After a good two years of construction, the group’s first European electric car factory was opened just outside of Berlin two weeks ago. The federal government and the state of Brandenburg are celebrating the project with investments of around five billion euros as a signal. In a first phase, 12,000 employees will produce 500,000 cars a year. The factory is the most modern of Tesla’s five production sites in the US, China and now Germany.
Source: Stern
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