On January 3, Sunday, local time in the United States, Tesla announced its annual sales. Capacity and deliveries reached a new high in a single quarter, with 43,828 vehicles still away from the million-vehicle mark. Tesla production and delivery data for the fourth quarter of 2021 are as follows:
Tesla production and delivery data for the year 2021 is as follows:
For the full year of 2021, Tesla delivered more than 930,000 vehicles worldwide, an increase of about 87.4% year-on-year, and delivered more than 300,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter, setting another delivery record and breaking the previous single-quarter record. It's clear that the redesigned Model S/X is starting to release demand, with Q4 accounting for almost half of the annual capacity.
When global car companies had to postpone deliveries or reduce production, Tesla properly responded to supply chain problems and effectively guaranteed production and delivery efficiency, with global deliveries exceeding 930,000 vehicles in 2021, nearly doubling year-on-year.
The auto industry as a whole saw a downward trend in sales due to shortages of computer chips and other components, but Tesla resisted this trend and achieved record sales in the fourth quarter of 2021, up 71% year-on-year.
In the Chinese market, Tesla has been for many consecutive months, the wholesale volume exceeded 50,000 vehicles, as of November 30, Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in 2021 delivery volume has exceeded 400,000 vehicles, reaching 413283, the Chinese market has become Tesla's largest single market in the world.
Tesla expects that with new factories near Austin, Texas and Berlin fully operational in 2022, Tesla's global sales growth rate should reach 50 percent or more at least in the next few years.