[yladiz]

I'm impressed and skeptical of the substantial increase in production. A 70% increase in production in one year would likely require substantial changes in the production stages. Hopefully Tesla didn't cut any corners to hit this production number; I'm hopeful that they just scaled back their production initially and now show their "full potential", or added a lot of new machinery in their production line(s). Maybe they will reach the 500,000 target.

[mikeash]

They've been achieving production increases like that for years now. 70% YoY isn't anything special or remarkable for Tesla at this point.

[nbarbettini]

They weren't scaling back their production before. They've just been aggressively expanding the plant - they built an entire new production line for Model X (IIRC), and have been adding a lot of automation. Not all quarters have been new records, but this one is.

[ams6110]

When your production is low-volume, large percentage increases result from modest actual increases.

[_ea1k]

I am pretty sure that the plant they are operating from (NUMMI) has a lot of potential for increase. I think that it peaked at over 400k units a year before Tesla bought it.