Tesla Has Already Hit 2021 Production Numbers

Tesla announced its third-quarter earnings this weekend and there's both some good and bad to be found in the automaker's financials. On the one hand, Telsa produced 365,923 cars, with its figures continuing to show that Tesla's introduction ofthe Model 3 has paid off. The vast majority of cars sold fell into thecheaper side of Tesla's lineup, with cars like theModel Sselling at a far less aggressive rate.

On the other hand, Tesla says it still fell short of its estimates. While many sectors have begun to stabilize following a rash of supply shortages, Tesla and others in the industry are still struggling.

However, with some 928,000 cars built this year, Tesla has almost made as many cars in 2022 then it did in all of 2021 when it produced 930,422 cars.

Tesla said that while it produced almost 366,000 cars, it was only able to deliver 343,830 of them. And there's a good reason why.

Tesla revealed that "historically, our delivery volumes have skewed towards the end of each quarter due to regional batch building of cars. As our production volumes continue to grow, it is becoming increasingly challenging to secure vehicle transportation capacity and at a reasonable cost during these peak logistics weeks."

In short, physically moving cars from one location to another is challenging and expensive right now.