Tesla bid farewell to 2025 shortly after celebrating the production of nine million electric vehicles. It did so with a unit of the Model Y, the best-seller of Elon Musk’s company, and the most sold car worldwide.
The “Tesla 9 million” rolled off the assembly line of the largest factory of the American brand in the world: located in Shanghai, operational since the end of 2019, the first of its kind in China wholly owned by a non-Chinese company, and aimed primarily at ensuring the supply for the Chinese market, although a significant portion of the production is destined for export. The installed capacity exceeds one million vehicles per year, and by August 2022 (that is, in just over two and a half years of operations), the industrial unit had already produced the one millionth vehicle, to celebrate two million in September 2023. This was followed by three million in October 2024, and four million on December 8, 2025.
According to recent data from CnEVPost, in the first eleven months of 2025, the Palo Alto company sold 754,651 vehicles globally. However, the manufacturer is facing a decrease in demand – in November, in China, the fifth consecutive month of decline compared to the same period in 2024. And in Europe, the downward trend continues, with a decrease of 34.2%, also compared to November 2024, to just 12,130 units, which is the reason behind a significant reduction in market share, from 2.1% to 1.4%.
