TESLA DELIVERED RECORD NUMBER OF CARS IN FIRST QUARTER 2022, DESPITE CHINA
(Archyde.com) – Tesla said on Saturday it delivered a record number of vehicles in the first quarter of 2022, despite a slowdown in production in China due to lockdowns under the “zero Covid” policy and a global shortage of semi-trailers. -drivers.
The American manufacturer delivered 310,048 cars during the first three months of the year, 1,500 more than in the last quarter of 2021 and an increase of 68% compared to the same period last year. Analysts on average expected 308,836 deliveries, according to Refinitiv data.
“It’s been an *exceptionally* difficult quarter due to supply chain disruptions and China’s zero Covid policy,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted following the seventh consecutive quarter of the year. record deliveries.
Tesla produced 305,407 vehicles between January and March, slightly less than the previous quarter’s 305,840, following being forced to close its Shanghai plant for several days due to measures taken by Chinese authorities to control the coronavirus pandemic.
(Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco and Akash Sriram in Bangalore, French version Tangi Salaün)
