Tesla has announced that deliveries of its electric vehicles has surpassed the 100,000-unit mark for the first time last year, according to a report by The Verge. In total, 101,312 units of the Model S and Model X found homes in 2017, an increase of 33% over the previous year.
During the forth quarter of the year, the company delivered 29,870 cars, with 15,200 of those being the Model S and 13,120 made up of Model Xs. Despite just 1,550 units of the new entry-level Model 3 reaching customers’ hands during that quarter, it all adds up to a 9% increase over the third quarter and a 27% jump compared to the same period in 2016.
The Palo Alto-based carmaker added that it built 2,425 units of the Model 3 during that quarter, with 793 built during the last seven days of the quarter – about 10 times the amount produced in the third quarter. To make way for the new car, Model S and Model X production was reduced during that period.
“As a result of the significant growth in our production rate, we made as many Model 3s since December 9 as we did in the more than four months of Model 3 production up to that point,” Tesla said in a statement. “This is why we were not able to deliver many of these cars during the holiday season, just before the quarter ended.”
Despite this, the company is behind schedule on the Model 3, with Tesla saying that it will have a slower-that-planned production ramp up in the first quarter of 2018. It now intends to build 2,500 units per week during this period, with the original target of 5,000 units per week – originally planned for the end of 2017 – now pushed back to the second quarter of this year.
Its eventual goal of making 10,000 cars per week has also been postponed indefinitely; nevertheless, Tesla said that Model 3 deliveries to non-employee customers “are now accelerating rapidly.” The company’s earnings report for the quarter and for 2017 is expected to be released in the coming weeks, which should provide a better understanding of its vitals, and what kind of delivery targets it hopes to hit this year.
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Some says if Tesla were rich, they wud see RHD Model 3 now instead of need 2 years development. Must be they goyang kaki tido.
Maybe U can explain better than me how a New company like Tesla can deliver 100,000 vehicles in 2017 while Proton deliver less than 80,000 vehicles ??!
Their plant is much newer. Tanjung malim almost 20 years old alredi. It time to upgrade and now with Geely investment making it possible, 120,000 cars per year shud be reachable.
For Malaysian sake, lets hope U are Right. I don’t want to see all our $$$ wasted. Cheers…
“all our $$$ wasted” Do elaborate, cuz its up to Geely to decide how the direction goes.
I would like to see how Elon will response if you tweet this stupid opinion
Iam just paraphrasing the erudite comments of certain ‘knowledgeable’, ‘experienced’, & ‘well informed’ bashers. And if Elon were to reply me, I will just point him to those erudite comments and let him make his judgement on their supreme ability to fully understand automotive industry from behind a keybod.
tsk tsk.
Elon doesn’t need to commit resources to produce RHD cars. As it is, he can’t even cope with his LHD orders.
The bulk of vehicle global sales is LHD.
If you were really smart, you would ask your Proton masters to build the Teslas under license in your underutilized Tanjong Malim plant…and develop the RHD conversion for Elon. Just like what you are doing for the Boyue.
Soon. When Tesla is burning money like no tomorrow, its sooner rather than later that Geely able to muscle into Tesla and takeover like what they did to Mesidis. Elon just doesnt know whats coming.
Tanjung Malim was built so that it can be expanded, and able to produce 1 million cars a year. Proton SELLS only around 80,000 last year. There’s no point in ramping up production when the demand isn’t there.
Tesla may be able to produce more cars, but they lack experience. There are reports from insiders that they skip a lot of quality checks, and only fixes the problem when customers complain about them. Then there are staff saying that Tesla had the assembly line moving so fast, even the robots that do the resistance welds don’t do the job properly. 90% of their cars fail quality checks and require major fixes before rolling out of the factor, and the fixes are embarrassing; doors not closing, water leaks, missing parts, parts out of alignment, loose parts. Just look it up in Google, look in forums for Tesla owners, there’s tons of complaints and customer experiences. There’s even a 25 minute long video from an owner of a Model S documenting his problems over a year (one of them is a crooked steering wheel). For a premium car maker that is inexcusible.