The electric-car-and-truck-and-battery-and-solar-panel company made 5,000 Model 3 sedans last week, and has now made a total of 7,000 of them.
Some background: As of April, Tesla was cranking out just 2,000 Model 3s a week. Since then, Elon Musk, the automaker’s CEO, has gone to extremes to fulfill his promise of making 5,000 cars a week by the end of June. Tesla shut down the manufacturing line and set up a pop-up tent assembly line to make it happen.
Missed it by that much: These efforts have helped more than double the company’s weekly production numbers, but they weren’t technically enough to hit 5,000 a week before the end of June—it took until five hours into Sunday to get there, according to Reuters.
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