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MOSCOW, October 2 American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla delivered 435,059 cars in the third quarter of this year, which is 26.5% more than in the same period last year year, the company said in a release.
In quarterly terms, supplies decreased by 6.7%. Deliveries of Model S and X electric vehicles totaled 15,985, down 16.9% quarterly and 14.4% year over year. The company delivered 419,074 Model 3 and Y vehicles, a quarterly decrease of 6.2%, and in annual terms the figure increased by 28.8%.
Tesla produced 430,488 vehicles in the third quarter. Compared to the same period last year, the figure increased by 17.6%; compared to the previous quarter, the decrease was 10.3%. Model S and X production totaled 13,688 vehicles, down 31.3% year-on-year and 29.7% quarterly. At the same time, 416,800 Model 3 and Y cars were produced, which is 20.5% more than the third quarter of last year, but 9.4% less than in the second quarter of the current year.
The company notes that the decrease in production figures in quarterly terms was caused by planned production downtime associated with their modernization. At the same time, Tesla still expects to produce about 1.8 million cars by the end of this year.
The American company Tesla Motors, headed by Elon Musk, was founded in 2003 as a developer and manufacturer of electric vehicles and technologies related to them. In addition to electric vehicles, the company produces batteries and electric motors using its own technology and sells them to other automobile companies, in particular Toyota and Daimler. In 2021, the company's headquarters were moved from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas.