Tesla Delivered Close to One Million Electric Vehicles in 2021

Tesla has revealed a string of successes in its latest 2021 Q4 report. While the company faced multiple challenges including chip shortages, the electric vehicles company achieved double the amount of deliveries to its customers in comparison to 2020.

In 2021, Tesla reported it has delivered 936,172 cars, with 308,600 of them made in the final quarter of the year. The number sees the company nearly double Tesla’s handover in 2020 which was only 499,550 vehicles. The year saw many issues with the Tesla Model S and Model X and deliveries of its higher-end models to drop by more than half in 2021 from 57,039 to 24,964 vehicles. This did not come as a surprise to the company as customers have often voiced out that they wanted to wait for the S and X updates that are expected to ship this Spring.

The previous year also saw Tesla face a mixed amount of product delays for its highly-anticipated Cybertruck and Semi. Tesla also made gradual price increases and has been faced with multiple recalls, with the most recent seeing the company recall over 475,000 Model 3 and Model S cars due to camera and trunk issues. With more and more car companies entering and making moves for a share of the electric vehicles market, Tesla is set to face more competitors in the new year. Other contenders for the top market share include Ford’s F-150 Lightning, the Mercedes EQA and the Cadillac Lyriq. It remains to be seen how the EV market will unfold in the near future.

In other Tesla news, one owner addressed the expensive repair bill by blowing up a Model S.