Tesla on Wednesday affirmed that it delivered greater than 1.2 million of its Model Y electrical SUVs in 2023—making it the top-selling car on the earth, automotive or truck, electrical or not.
As Tesla put it, “the best-selling vehicle on the planet is an EV.”
The Model Y is made within the U.S., in Fremont, California, and Austin, Texas; in China, at Tesla’s Shanghai plant; and in Germany, at its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, in Grünheide.
The declaration of gross sales dominance jumps the end line considerably. Toyota hasn’t but launched a 2023 world gross sales complete for the runner-up (and long-time gross sales champ), the Corolla. But with the Corolla at about 1.12 million for 2022, it’s possible the Model Y obtained there.
In its This autumn 2023 presentation deck for shareholders, launched Wednesday, Tesla additionally touted the output of its Fremont manufacturing unit that’s a type of Model Y meeting areas.
Tesla manufacturing unit, Fremont, California
“Before Tesla purchased the Fremont factory, the record output of the previous owner was nearly 430,000 vehicles made in a single year,” Tesla mentioned in its shareholder replace. “In 2023, the Tesla Fremont factory produced nearly 560,000 vehicles thanks to our ~20,000 Fremont-based employees.”
“What would have been a run-down strip mall is the highest productivity car factory in the Americas,” added Musk. “It was derelict when we got it, and now it’s the most productive plant in this entire part of the world.”
To add a zing to that assertion, the Fremont plant, a joint effort between Toyota and GM, used to assemble Toyota Corolla fashions, and a Toyota Corolla was the final mannequin assembled when the plant closed in 2010.
While the Model Y numbers stood as a Tesla triumph, its deliveries weren’t rather more than the 1.8 million autos that it had anticipated earlier within the yr—conservatively, Musk had inferred on the time. Tesla’s complete for 2023 amounted to 1,808,581 deliveries and 1,845,985 autos produced, together with a interval by which it lower costs considerably. All mentioned, that was a 38% acquire in deliveries and a 35% acquire in manufacturing, each year-over-year—barely sufficient to offset the acceleration of China’s BYD in This autumn EV gross sales.
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Musk didn’t focus on the $25,000 Tesla EV that had been reported earlier within the day, however he did present a bit extra background on how the corporate may be capable to continue to grow—together with with autos constructed on that next-generation platform.
“It’s worth noting that if you look at the average selling price of the other top-selling vehicles in the world, they are much lower-priced than the Model Y,” mentioned Musk, referring to the Toyota RAV4 and Corolla, and the Honda Civic. “So people are really stretching their wallets to be able to afford a Tesla.”
The firm’s next-generation, cost-cutting platform, is about to enter manufacturing the second half of 2025 with a “revolutionary new manufacturing line at Giga Texas,” in keeping with Musk.
“It will be head-and-shoulders above any other manufacturing technology that exists anywhere in the world,” added Musk. “It’s next-level.”
Source: www.greencarreports.com