The American manufacturer of high-end electric vehicles You’re here announced on Sunday that it had delivered nearly a million vehicles in 2021, almost twice as many as in 2020, doing better than expected despite global supply difficulties.
Tesla delivered more than 936,000 cars of all models in 2021, representing growth of 87.4% from the previous year. The manufacturer is thus doing much better than the objective announced last January, to increase its deliveries by 50% on average per year for several years.
The group, which chose to move its headquarters from Palo Alto (California) to Austin (Texas), sold 911,208 copies of its Model 3 and Y, and 24,964 vehicles of its luxury models Model S and X (sold respectively 90,000 and 100,000. dollars each).
In the fourth quarter alone, 308,600 cars were delivered, up 0.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Earlier in the year, in the second quarter, You’re here had crossed, for the first time, the threshold of 200,000 cars delivered (201,250).
Tesla managed to sidestep global logistics issues that plagued the industry as a whole automobile. Elon musk had already indicated that he had been able to bypass much of the shortage of semiconductors using new chip designs and rewriting them software Consequently.
In October, Tesla was boosted by a mega-order of 100,000 electric vehicles from the rental company Hertz, by the end of 2022. This announcement brought the automaker into the very select club of companies worth more than $ 1,000 billion on the stock market.
The manufacturer is however in the crosshairs of the American road safety agency (NHTSA) for its controversial driver assistance system called Autopilot. You’re here has also agreed to update its software to prevent drivers from playing video games on the car’s system while the car is in motion, after an investigation was opened.
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