Tesla has made 5 million EVs globally, the most of any automaker

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been claiming exponential progress for Tesla for years. And it’s taking place. 

The U.S. automaker introduced Saturday that it has produced its 5 millionth automobile globally.

To place this into perspective, Tesla celebrated its 1 millionth automobile simply three and a half years in the past, in March 2020. And simply this March 1 it reported making 4 million cumulative autos. 

This week, we produced our 5 millionth automobile—thanks Tesla homeowners on your ongoing assist!

— Tesla (@Tesla) September 16, 2023

Tesla handed a million annual EV sales in 2022, buoyed by manufacturing ramps in Germany and Texas. It’s been focusing on 1.8 to 2 million for 2023, aided by these services. 

The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts 14 million EV gross sales globally in 2023—a 35% year-over-year enchancment. If that’s the case, Tesla may quantity to one in every of each seven EVs bought globally. 

2023 Tesla Mannequin Y – Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.

No different automaker approaches Tesla’s numbers based mostly on EVs alone. Whereas final 12 months many had predicted VW to overtake Tesla in 2024, Tesla now has much more of a lead versus the German automaker—and the Mannequin Y stays the top-selling EV on its residence turf, outselling the VW ID.4 and ID.3 mixed in Europe.

China’s BYD has been the closest rival on this race to speed up EV manufacturing on a worldwide scale, nevertheless it consists of an asterisk. BYD claimed to have hit 5 million cumulative “new vitality automobile” gross sales in August—a determine that features plug-in hybrids, which BYD has pushed out to South American markets, for example. 

If getting folks to plug in and drive electrical regionally is the precedence, in sheer manufacturing of plug-in autos, BYD stays within the lead. It claimed to supply greater than 1.5 million plug-in autos within the first half of 2023 and be on monitor for 3 million for this 12 months alone.

BYD Han

BYD has additionally been going large on electrical vans and buses, in addition to supplying its Blade battery to different firms—like Mercedes-Benz reportedly. And Tesla. 

Few different automakers can but declare the exponential progress of Tesla and BYD in EVs. Nissan reported earlier this summer time that it had surpassed one million global EV sales—a milestone it took 12 years to realize. 

Mercedes-Benz AMG EQE sedan at Tesla Supercharger station

However for Tesla, EV manufacturing wasn’t the one large milestone Tesla has reported prior to now month. In September it reached 50,000 Superchargers globally. In accordance with knowledge from the DOE’s Various Fuels Information Middle about 21,000 of these are within the U.S.. With offers not too long ago inked with a broad swath of automakers for Supercharger entry and the adoption of Tesla’s NACS cost port, anticipate that progress additionally to