Tesla’s Q2 – Tesla produced 451,758 vehicles in Q2 and delivered 480,126, a 25% jump versus Q2 2025. The deliveries come as the company faces mounting scrutiny over Full Self-Driving after a fatal home crash led to a National Transportation Safety Board investigation and a
In the same quarter Tesla’s factory output accelerated, the scrutiny around its driver-assistance technology also intensified.
Between April and June, the company produced 451,758 vehicles. That total included 442,936 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, plus 8,822 “other vehicles” such as the Cybertruck and the Tesla Semi. It also marked a shift from earlier in the year, when Tesla discontinued the Model S and Model X.
Production was about 10% higher than the second quarter of 2025, when Tesla produced 410,244 vehicles.
Deliveries told an even bigger story. Tesla said it delivered 480,126 vehicles in the April-to-June period, including 467,762 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles and 12,364 other vehicles. Deliveries were about 25% higher than the second quarter of 2025, when Tesla delivered 384,122 vehicles.
For a direct-to-consumer company like Tesla, deliveries are closely watched as a proxy for sales.
The figures land amid a run of negative headlines tied to the safety of Tesla’s partially automated driving technology. Earlier this month, a woman was killed in her home after a Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving crashed into it. Tesla blamed the driver. but the crash was serious enough to prompt the National Transportation Safety Board to open an investigation.
A few days later, it was reported that Tesla quietly settled a lawsuit stemming from another fatal crash involving FSD.
Even as Tesla’s numbers improve, its robotaxi effort has not matched the scale originally promised by Elon Musk. Tesla’s service is currently operating at a much slower and smaller level than predicted. relying on a fleet of approximately 60 to 70 Model Y vehicles. Those vehicles operate in a geofenced area in Austin, Houston, and Dallas.
The sequence is stark: Tesla’s deliveries climbed sharply in Q2, but the company’s automated-driving headlines have grown just as quickly, starting with a fatal crash that triggered an NTSB investigation and followed by a reported quiet settlement connected to another fatal incident.
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25% jump and still all this FSD drama… kinda wild.
I don’t get how deliveries go up if their “robotaxi” stuff is failing. Like people will buy the car but won’t use the software? Or is it just marketing and the safety probes don’t matter.
They say Tesla blamed the driver but also the NTSB is investigating so… basically Tesla’s trying to dodge responsibility again. Also didn’t Elon say the robotaxi would be everywhere already? 60-70 cars in like 3 cities sounds like a lie or I’m missing something.
Not to be dramatic but if it crashed into a home isn’t that more like the car malfunctioned? Like why would it be set on Full Self-Driving in a driveway at all? And the “quiet settlement” thing… that’s not exactly comforting. Meanwhile they’re pumping out Model 3/Model Y and acting like it’s fine, so yeah I don’t trust it.