Tesla says its Texas factory makes 3,000 Model Ys a week

Tesla builds 3,000 Model Y crossovers a week at its new factory in Austin, Texas.

Tesla shared a new production volume at Tweet Thursday.This milestone marks Bloomberg’s CEO Elon Musk had I asked the head of the company’s China division To speed up the Austin factory.

Extrapolating this production rate over the course of a year would mean Tesla will produce about 156,000 vehicles, well below the annual target of 250,000 vehicles the company advertised in its third-quarter shareholder letter. not reached yet.

But it’s a far cry from the slow start Tesla experienced in Austin, as the company ended up using older battery cells at the last minute after it was found that the new design wasn’t ready for mass production.