Tesla announced on Tuesday that the company has seen an increase in cars produced from 2015 to 2016. However, the company fell short of its annual delivery goal in 2016.
The California-based automaker stated in a press release on Tuesday that it delivered around 22,200 cars in the last quarter of 2016. According to statistics, 12,700 cars were Model S sedans and 9,500 were Model X SUVs. It was also reported by the company that the automaker delivered 76,230 cars in all of 2016. For the year, Tesla had set a goal of delivering 80,000-90,000 vehicles.
Tesla explained that its fourth quarter numbers should be treated as "slightly conservative." This is because the number of vehicles delivered, as reported, only included cars that had all paperwork officially slated in the new owner's name. The automaker also explained with other reasons as to why it had trouble meeting its goal, reported MSN.
"Because of short-term production challenges starting at the end of October and lasting through early December from the transition to new Autopilot hardware, Q4 vehicle production was weighted more heavily towards the end of the quarter than we had originally planned," the company stated in the press release. "We were ultimately able to recover and hit our production goal, but the delay in production resulted in challenges that impacted quarterly deliveries, including, among other things, cars missing shipping cutoffs for Europe and Asia. "
Tesla also stated that it was unable to include the sales of 2,750 cars from the fourth quarter because of unforeseen delays in transport or because the customer was unable to physically take delivery. Had Tesla built 24,882 cars in the fourth quarter of 2016. This translates to 64 percent more cars produced in 2016 than in 2015, reported The Drive.
It is reported that Tesla has a total of 6,450 cars that were still on their way to be delivered to the customers. Those vehicles will be recorded under the first quarter of 2017.
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