Tesla announces record deliveries following price cuts
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla delivered 422,875 of its electric cars to customers in the first quarter of 2023, including 412,180 Model 3 and Y vehicles and 10,695 Model S and Xs, the company has announced. That's a 36 percent year-over-year increase versus the first quarter of 2022, a 4 percent increase from last quarter, and a record for the company, according to Electrek.
The announcement doesn't give much of an indication for the increase; for that we'll likely have to wait for Tesla's full financial results on April 19th. But news of the delivery numbers follow a series of price cuts across the US, Europe, and China impacting various models across Tesla's range. In January, for example, Tesla reduced the price of the long range Model Y variant by 20...