Tesla’s breakneck pace produced more than 53,000 Model 3s this quarter
Tesla made 53,239 Model 3s in the third quarter of 2018, which is nearly twice as many as it produced in the previous quarter, the company announced on Tuesday. The automaker delivered 55,840 Model 3s and 83,500 cars in total (including the Models X and S). That means Tesla sold, in one quarter, “more than 80 percent” as many cars as it did in all of 2017, the company said.
Those production and delivery numbers are right in line with what the company had previously estimated. (Tesla said that it expected to make 50,000 to 55,000 Model 3 vehicles in Q3 and predicted that “deliveries should outpace production.”) It also shows that Tesla was able to increase its pace of Model 3 output despite being mired in the drama surrounding Elon...