Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2022 automobile supply and manufacturing numbers

Tesla simply posted its second-quarter automobile manufacturing and supply numbers for 2022. Listed here are the important thing numbers:

• Whole deliveries Q2 2022: 254,695
• Whole manufacturing Q2 2022: 258,580

Supply numbers, that are the closest approximation of gross sales reported by Tesla, fell simply shy of analysts’ expectations.

In response to a consensus compiled by FactSet-owned Road Account, analysts had been anticipating deliveries of 256,520 autos for the quarter, which was marked by Covid restrictions, provide chain snarls, semiconductor chip and different components shortages.

Final 12 months, Tesla delivered 201,250 autos within the second quarter, its first time delivering greater than 200,000 models in a three-month interval. Within the first quarter of 2022, Tesla delivered 310,048 autos.

At this time’s supply numbers represented gross sales progress of 26.5% year-over-year, and a 17.9% lower sequentially for Elon Musk’s electrical automobile enterprise.

The corporate has soft-guided to round 50% common annual progress, long-term, relying on manufacturing capability and different elements.

In Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder deck, the corporate stated, “We plan to develop our manufacturing capability as rapidly as doable. Over a multi-year horizon, we anticipate to attain 50% common annual progress in automobile deliveries.”

In China this quarter, Tesla needed to shut down or solely permit partial operations at its Shanghai manufacturing facility for weeks as a consequence of covid-related public well being orders. (FactSet famous that some analysts’ projections had been excluded from the StreetAccount consensus if they didn’t consider the Shanghai manufacturing facility shutdown.)

Different provide chain snarls, worsened by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, additionally impacted Tesla and the broader auto business throughout the quarter.

Individually, Tesla is grappling with the excessive prices of constructing out and beginning up manufacturing at new factories in Austin, Texas and close to Berlin along with its Fremont, California and Shanghai vegetation. CEO Elon Musk has publicly lamented that the brand new factories are costing Tesla billions, however haven’t but been in a position to make sufficient autos and batteries to justify their prices.

As startups and legacy automakers supply extra new electrical autos, Tesla’s share of the worldwide and home EV market is anticipated to lower however stay substantial.