Tesla's goal for 2022 is to produce 1.5 million vehicles by 2022 with the help of super factories in Shanghai, Berlin and Texas.
In his opening remarks on the Q1 2022 earnings call, Tesla Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn noted that they still believe Tesla will also achieve a growth rate of 50% or more this year. Musk also said: "We are confident that in 2022 car production will increase by 50% compared to 21 years, and I think we actually have a reasonable goal that the number of deliveries this year can increase by 60% compared to last year." ”
Musk noted in his opening remarks: "Now, with the addition of new factories such as the Berlin and Texas factories, Tesla's production scale will expand, although these new factories are still producing vehicles on a small scale, but its growth rate is obvious, so, I am very confident in the teams at both factories, they will initially produce slowly, but as their familiarity increases, their production will grow exponentially this year."
Since the new plant usually takes 9 to 12 months to reach high-quality mass production from the start of production, the contribution of Berlin and Texas to Tesla's production may appear in the third or fourth quarter, and since the start of production of cars in 2019, the Shanghai Gigafactory has contributed to Tesla's production, although recently due to the impact of the epidemic, its temporary suspension but drunkenly promoted the effective promotion of the resumption of work and production policies, Tesla's Shanghai factory will resume full production as soon as possible.
In addition, Musk also has a positive view of the Shanghai factory, he predicts that the output of the Shanghai factory in the second quarter will be almost the same as the output of the first quarter, and he believes that Tesla China will tide over the difficulties in the second quarter, and then in the third and fourth quarters to catch up, according to Musk's speculation, Tesla is likely to produce more than 1.5 million cars this year