Giga Texas builds 240 Tesla Model Y per day - 20,000 so far this year

31 October 2022

Tesla took to Twitter to announce its progress at Giga Texas - the team at the factory managed to build 20,000 Tesla Model Y cars since it began operations. The production really started in April with a slow ramp up and by September the factory made 10,000 units of Model Y. In the last 43 days the same team produced another 10,000 cars or 240 cars every day. That’s over 87,000 cars per year at this speed.

In the last three months Tesla manufactured 291,189 units of Model Y across all of its factories. Elon Musk confirmed during July's earnings call with Tesla’s investors that the company expects to ramp up production at the Texas facility to 1,000 vehicles per week. It looks like the Texas team beat the expectations - the 1,600 cars a week is quite an achievement.

Giga Berlin is about 3 times smaller than Giga Texas and is already churning out 2,000 cars per week and is expected to hit the yearly capacity of 250,000 cars some time next year.

This is a good reason for celebrations and Tesla posted some photos of employees celebrating the achievement, but apparently not everyone was happy about the results. Seemingly one employee flipped the birdie right into the camera - you can’t please everyone.

Tesla Model Y and Model 3 are conquering market after market and are becoming global bestsellers, if nothing gets in the way of Tesla’s production goals it should sell close to 800,000 units of Model Y this year and possibly even more of the Model 3. If it manages to do this, Model 3 will join the top 5 global bestsellers with Model Y either close behind it or possibly even ahead of it.

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