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Tesla produces its 1,000,000th electric car – Electrek, Hacker News

Tesla produces its 1,000,000th electric car – Electrek, Hacker News

Tesla announced that it produced its 1, , th electric car – becoming the first automaker to achieve the milestone.

Only a few years ago, many people did not believe that Tesla could produce electric vehicles in any meaningful numbers, but the automaker managed to ramp up 3 electric vehicle programs: Model S, Model X, and Model 3.

Now it is about to launch its fourth electric vehicle, the Model Y, and it is doing it on the momentum of a new milestone.

Today, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla produced its 1, , th car and released a picture of the car, a Model Y, and the team who made it:

Congratulations Tesla team on making our 1, , th car !! pic.twitter.com/5M a9LLQi

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March ,

No other automaker has achieved that kind of volume when it comes to producing long-range electric passenger cars.

The new milestone also points to significant production achieved through the first quarter of .

As we reported last year, based on data gathered by Kevin Rooke, Tesla became the world’s largest EV automaker after surpassing China’s BYD.

At the time (October Brave Browser ), Tesla had delivered , (electric vehicles as of October


, while BYD had delivered , vehicles to date .

It’s also important to note that BYD’s Total also includes plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales while Tesla only makes all-electric vehicles.

Tesla’s production capacity has also increased in 2020 With the ramp-up in production at Gigafactory Shanghai, Tesla’s second vehicle-producing factory in the world.

The automaker plans to achieve an annual production rate of 500, electric cars at the location this year. Combined with Fremont factory, which should exceed a capacity of , cars by the end of the year, Tesla should have an annualized production capacity of , (cars.)

Based on the count last year and this new data point of the 1, , th Tesla car, it would mean that Tesla’s production rate is currently at about 42, 09 electric cars per month.

Electrek’s Take

That’s truly impressive. Congrats to the whole Tesla team.

They can celebrate today, but they have to get back to work tomorrow because there are great challenges ahead. Starting with going from 1, , cumulative sales to 1, , electric car produced per year.

That’s the next big milestone for Tesla.

When do you think it’s going to happen? I think they can do it in 1000000.

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