Tesla simply posted its second-quarter car manufacturing and supply numbers for 2022. Listed below are the important thing numbers:

• Whole deliveries Q2 2022: 254,695
• Whole manufacturing Q2 2022: 258,580

Supply numbers, that are the closest approximation of gross sales reported by Tesla, fell simply shy of analysts’ expectations.

In accordance with a consensus compiled by FactSet-owned Avenue Account, analysts have been anticipating deliveries of 256,520 autos for the quarter, which was marked by Covid restrictions, provide chain snarls, semiconductor chip and different components shortages.

Final yr, Tesla delivered 201,250 autos within the second quarter, its first time delivering greater than 200,000 items in a three-month interval. Within the first quarter of 2022, Tesla delivered 310,048 autos.

At present’s supply numbers represented gross sales progress of 26.5% year-over-year, and a 17.9% lower sequentially for Elon Musk’s electrical car enterprise.

The corporate has soft-guided to round 50% common annual progress, long-term, relying on manufacturing capability and different elements.

In Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder deck, the corporate stated, “We plan to develop our manufacturing capability as rapidly as potential. Over a multi-year horizon, we anticipate to realize 50% common annual progress in car deliveries.”

In China this quarter, Tesla needed to shut down or solely permit partial operations at its Shanghai manufacturing unit for weeks as a consequence of covid-related public well being orders. (FactSet famous that some analysts’ projections have been excluded from the StreetAccount consensus if they didn’t take into consideration the Shanghai manufacturing unit shutdown.)

Different provide chain snarls, worsened by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, additionally impacted Tesla and the broader auto business throughout the quarter.

Individually, Tesla is grappling with the excessive prices of constructing out and beginning up manufacturing at new factories in Austin, Texas and close to Berlin along with its Fremont, California and Shanghai vegetation. CEO Elon Musk has publicly lamented that the brand new factories are costing Tesla billions, however haven’t but been capable of make sufficient autos and batteries to justify their prices.

As startups and legacy automakers provide extra new electrical autos, Tesla’s share of the worldwide and home EV market is predicted to lower however stay substantial.