BEIJING — China’s electrical automobile firms are racing to ramp up manufacturing, quicker than Tesla did in its early days.

U.S.-listed start-up Xpeng mentioned Monday it has produced 100,000 vehicles — it got here six years after the corporate launched.

Rival electrical automobile start-up Nio mentioned in April it reached that 100,000 automobile manufacturing milestone. The U.S.-listed firm was based in late Nov. 2014 below a unique identify, and have become Nio in July 2017, about 4 years in the past.

For comparability, Elon Musk’s Tesla took 12 years from its launch in 2003 to provide 100,000 autos, in keeping with public filings. Tesla has confronted quite a few manufacturing delays, particularly in its early years. The U.S.-based electrical automobile maker has since elevated its manufacturing capability with new factories in Shanghai an Berlin.

To be clear, Tesla continues to be a lot bigger compared.

The electrical carmaker crossed the 1 millionth automobile mark greater than a yr in the past in March 2020, Musk mentioned in a tweet.

Manufacturing within the third quarter alone reached 238,000 autos. The corporate’s shares are up 11% year-to-date.

Xpeng’s U.S.-listed shares are down 12% to date this yr. Nio’s inventory is down greater than 25% year-to-date.

Chinese language electrical battery and automobile maker BYD mentioned in Might it produced 1 million passenger vehicles within the new power automobile class, which incorporates battery-only and hybrid-powered vehicles.

BYD’s Hong Kong-traded shares are up greater than 25% to date this yr. The corporate’s backers embrace American billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.