Tesla announced on Wednesday that its first-quarter deliveries were 13% lower than a year ago as the company faces a barrage of protests and attacks over CEO Elon Musk‘s work with the Trump administration.
The company reported 336,681 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, down from the 386,810 deliveries it reported in the first quarter of 2024. The sales figures were Tesla’s worst in three years, and the 13% drop is the steepest decline in the company’s history.
The release also showed the company’s production was down year-to-year, with 362,615 vehicles produced in the first quarter of 2025 compared to 433,371 vehicles produced in the first quarter of 2024.
Tesla blamed the lower production figures on “the changeover of Model Y lines across all four of our factories,” which they claim led to the “loss of several weeks of production” during the…
