Tesla delivers record 1.3 million cars in 2022
Huge upswing predicted this year too as Tesla EV sales top 405,000 units in final quarter of 2022 aloneTesla is celebrating new production and sales records set in 2022, announcing that it delivered 1,313,851 EVs last year.
Easily overshadowing the 935,950 units delivered in 2021, the 40 per cent year-on-year increase hinged on massive worldwide sales of the 2023 Tesla Model 3 sedan and Tesla Model Y SUV that recorded 1,247,146 combined (the company doesn’t split them).
Making up the rest were the Tesla Model S luxury sedan and Model X SUV (66,705 combined).
The record figure for the 2022 calendar year is based on a production output of 1,369,611 units and comes after a mammoth final quarter in which 439,701 EVs were produced and 405,278 cars delivered.
The final-quarter performance beat Tesla’s previous record that was set in the third quarter last year (343,830).
The bumper final-quarter figure came despite production being halted at its Shanghai plant in China.
Generous discounts were also made in some markets to ramp up demand, particularly in China, North America and the UK.
Official Australian sales figures will be released tomorrow (January 5), with Tesla racking up more than 17,000 units to the end of November.
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