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Tesla (TSLA) Q2 car deliveries report


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Tesla reports 14% decline in vehicle deliveries, marking second straight year-over-year drop

Tesla reported round 384,000 car deliveries within the second quarter, a 14% decline from a yr in the past, and the second straight quarterly drop. The inventory rose about 4% on Wednesday.

The electrical car maker reported 443,956 deliveries and manufacturing of 410,831 automobiles throughout the identical interval final yr.

Listed below are the important thing numbers:

  • Complete deliveries Q2 2025: 384,122 automobiles
  • Complete manufacturing Q2 2025: 410,244 automobiles

Wall Avenue analysts have been anticipating Tesla to report deliveries of round 387,000 in line with FactSet.

Deliveries within the first quarter of 2025 dropped 13% from a yr earlier to 336,681. Deliveries are the closest approximation of auto gross sales reported by Tesla however usually are not exactly outlined within the firm’s shareholder communications.

The electrical car maker, headquartered in Austin, Texas, would not get away gross sales and manufacturing by mannequin or area. Nonetheless, the corporate stated that it produced 396,835 of its hottest Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y automobiles, with 373,728 mixed deliveries for these fashions within the second quarter.

Many buyers had low expectations heading into the print.

An unbiased researcher who publishes as Troy Teslike on Patreon predicted deliveries of 356,000 for the quarter. Prediction market Kalshi informed CNBC on Tuesday that its merchants forecast deliveries of round 364,000.

Gene Munster, managing associate at Deepwater Asset Administration, stated the report got here 4% above the “whisper” quantity in a publish to social media platform X. He expects the second-quarter decline to mark the underside for Tesla.

Tesla faces an onslaught of competitors, particularly from Chinese language EV makers that promote newer and extra reasonably priced fashions. Within the first quarter, Tesla partly blamed its declining automotive gross sales on prospects who had delayed their orders so they might get a refreshed model of the Mannequin Y SUV, which started delivery in March.

There’s additionally a political backlash towards CEO Elon Musk, with waves of protests towards Tesla weighing on the corporate’s popularity and impacting gross sales.

Musk was President Donald Trump’s largest monetary backer in final yr’s election, and endorsed Germany’s far-right, anti-immigrant social gathering AfD. He led the Trump administration’s Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, initiative to slash the dimensions and capability of federal businesses, together with regulators tasked with oversight of his firms. Musk’s formal function with DOGE led to Could.

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His relationship with Trump shortly started to bitter and, over the weekend, Musk reignited the feud, slamming the multitrillion-dollar tax-and-spending bundle backed by the president, and calling for the creation of a 3rd political social gathering.

Sure elements of the invoice might hurt Tesla’s photo voltaic and battery enterprise, and would probably decrease EV gross sales by roughly 100,000 automobiles per yr by 2035, in line with suppose tank Vitality Innovation.

In the meantime, Trump has threatened to probably finish different subsidies that profit Musk’s companies, together with Tesla and the aerospace and protection firm SpaceX.

Additionally in Wednesday’s announcement, Tesla reported 10,394 deliveries of its different fashions in the course of the second quarter, together with its metal Cybertruck. The angular pickup has been recalled eight instances for quite a lot of {hardware} and software program points since Tesla started delivery it in November 2023.

The corporate additionally reported that it had produced 410,244 automobiles in the course of the three months led to June, together with 396,835 of its hottest, and lower-priced, Mannequin Y SUVs and Mannequin 3 sedans.

Shares of Tesla fell greater than 5% on Tuesday to shut at $300.71 and have been down about 26% for the yr, the worst efficiency amongst tech’s megacap firms. The transfer put the corporate’s market cap beneath $1 trillion.

The corporate will talk about monetary outcomes for the second quarter with buyers on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, after markets shut.

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— CNBC’s Samantha Subin contributed reporting.