Tesla Production, Deliveries Had A Record Quarter Ahead Of Model 3 Launch

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Tesla is discontinuing a low-end Model S with its 60-kilowatt-hour battery pack on April 17, making the 75-kilowatt-hour Model S its cheapest vehicle at $74,500 (U.S.) before tax credits or state rebates until the Model 3 arrives.

Elon Musk's company delivered so far 25,000 cars, which is a way better number than past year, increased by 69 pc. This suggests the gap between Tesla's Model X SUV and Model S Sedan is soon to swell, considering the figures published by the company.

Tesla said the delivery count should be viewed as "slightly conservative" as they only count a auto as delivered if it has been transferred to the customer and all of the paperwork is complete. "These will be counted as deliveries in Q2 2017".

"Stormy weather in Shortville.", Musk tweeted after Tesla's better-than-expected quarterly vehicle deliveries announced on Sunday sent its stock surging 5.8 percent.

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) on Sunday said that its vehicle deliveries jumped to 25,000 vehicles in the first quarter, up 69 percent from the same period previous year.

It also produced 25,418 EVs between January and March - and that's a new company record.

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Tesla indicated that about 13,450 vehicles were Model S and about 11,550 vehicles were Model X and claimed to be the record one for quarterly deliveries.

The public is looking forward to the Model 3 with great enthusiasm and a sense of eager anticipation. Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totalling US$26 billion, while Tesla has lost US$2.3 billion. It has been a wonderful year for Tesla Motors. The Model 3 will be hands down its cheapest vehicle to date, starting at $35,000 before incentives, putting it within reach of the majority of American (not to mention foreign) auto owners. However, investors saw a threat for the first time in February when Musk stated that the company could get "close to the edge" as it is burning cash ahead of the Model 3 launch. "Final numbers could vary by up to 0.5%", Tesla said.

If you include the vehicles in transit that will be delivered during the second quarter, Tesla is nearly up to 30,000 deliveries year to date.

However, at the current rate (slightly over 100,000 cars a year), Tesla is still a long way from its 2018 production target of 500,000 vehicles annually.

Elon Musk's company reached a bottleneck at the end of 2016, when deliveries fell 9.4 percent due to manufacturing obstacles from design improvements in the autopilot hardware.

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