Tesla Breaks Delivery Record in 2022: What’s Planned for 2023?
This page is translated from the original post "Tesla bat son record de livraisons en 2022, et quoi de prévu en 2023 ?" in French.
- 02/01/2023 21:00
With 1.31 million deliveries last year, Tesla remains the number one in electric cars and is preparing for the future with a pickup and a compact.
Who can stop Tesla? Each year, the brand breaks its delivery records, and 2022 is no exception. Certainly, one might sense some frustration from Elon Musk, as his average growth rate of 50% is not being met.
Tesla Model 3 and Model Y do all the work
According to official figures, the American brand delivered 405,278 electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2022. This is a record quarter, up 31% compared to the same period in 2021. For the year, 2022 ends with 1.31 million vehicles, versus 936,172 in 2021, representing a growth of only 40%. Breakdown shows that the vast majority of electric cars are Tesla Model 3 or Model Y. The two “affordable” vehicles from the American firm have accumulated 1.25 million units, compared to over 66,000 Model S and Model X.
| Deliveries | Production | |
| Q1 | 310,048 | 305,407 |
| Q2 | 254,695 | 258,580 |
| Q3 | 343,830 | 365,923 |
| Q4 | 405,278 | 439,701 |
| Total | 1,313,851 | 1,369,611 |
The situation is also opposite to last year, when production struggled to meet demand. This led to very long delivery delays. However, in a year, Tesla has opened factories in Berlin (Germany) and Austin (USA), plus expanded the Shanghai plant in China. As a result, there is a clear excess of cars produced in the last three months, nearly 35,000 units. This could explain why the manufacturer held unprecedented discounts at the end of December on its stock of Model 3 and Y, and offered free miles on Superchargers.
2023, the year of the Tesla Cybertruck and Model 2?
The expansion of the Tesla lineup is not at all ahead of schedule, quite the opposite. The electric Semi truck was delayed by three years, originally scheduled for 2019, but its deliveries only started in December 2022. It’s worse for the Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup, unveiled in 2019, but whose mass production is not expected to begin until 2023.
Finally, the small Tesla, possibly called Model 2, was announced in 2020 for release in 2023. The one expected to arrive at $25,000 (and hopefully less than €30,000) still remains shrouded in mystery. Elon Musk has not mentioned this affordable electric car for two years, but may do so in the coming weeks. Tesla has just confirmed a special shareholders’ day on March 1, 2023, where it will present, among other things, the “third-generation platform”.
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