While most of the car industry continues to feel the impacts of the semiconductor shortage, Tesla appears to have emerged from the third quarter relatively unscathed.
In fact, Tesla has confirmed record delivery and production figures for Q3, managing to produce 237,823 vehicles and deliver 241,300 vehicles. This beats the company’s previous record which was set in the Q2 of 2021 when it delivered 201,250 vehicles.
Of the vehicles that Tesla produced, 228,882 of them were Model 3 and Model Ys, while the remaining 8,941 were for the Model S and Model X. As for those vehicles delivered, 232,025 were Model 3s and Model Ys while 9,275 were Model S and Model Xs. It’s worth noting that Q3 was the second quarter that the facelifted Model S was being produced. The facelifted Model X has yet to hit the production line.
One reason why Tesla has been able to avoid any catastrophic effects from the chip shortage is that it started to source chips from outer suppliers and had its teams rewrite code to work with these new chips. It’s hard to know if Tesla’s fourth-quarter will also be free of any significant interference from the shortage.
Production of various Tesla models is expected to ramp up in the coming months once its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas comes online and starts production the Cybertruck later next year. Tesla’s plant in Berlin, Germany will also come online soon and help to further bolster the company’s production.
