Now, Tesla has announced that it has built its 3 millionth EV at the Fremont factory in California which was once run by Toyota and GM.
In a post on X, Tesla shared a photo of some of these employees surrounding the car thatās rolled off the production line. This vehicle was a blue 2024 Tesla Model S sedan.
Alongside the car, there was also a battery pack which was assembled at its Gigafactory in Nevada which supplies the packs to the Fremont factory.
Congrats Tesla Fremont + Giga Nevada on building their 3 millionth car! pic.twitter.com/AKc6qo1cUQ
— Tesla (@Tesla) May 17, 2024
The Tesla Fremont factory has been a pivotal part of Teslaās growth and employs over 22,000 employees in the San Fransico Bay region.
In 2023, the factory produced over 550,000 vehicles, mainly supplying to the US and Canadian markets along with exporting to a few markets globally.
Thousands of early adopters of EVs in Australia still own a vehicle built in that factory. Vehicle models delivered from Fremont to local drivers included:
- Tesla Roadster
- Tesla Model S
- Tesla Model X
- Tesla Model 3
For over 8 years Tesla delivered vehicles into Australia from this US factory before switching over to its then recently built Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory.Ā
The last vehicles to arrive from Fremont were delivered to customers in early 2021. Since then, over 90,000 EVs have been delivered from the Shanghai factory to local customers.
In late March, Tesla celebrated the delivery of 100,000 EVs in Australia, easily accounting for more than 1 in every 2 EVs on Australian roads.
100k Tesla vehicles on the road in Australia šš¦š¦šŗ
Thanks to our owners for helping us accelerate the worldās transition to sustainable energy!
Everyone else: come try ā https://t.co/4XhsFFK3us pic.twitter.com/uoGBGd0CWg
— Tesla Australia & New Zealand (@TeslaAUNZ) March 28, 2024
The latest news comes at an interesting time after Toyota sold the factory to Tesla in 2010. Ten years later, the first Model Y was built at the Fremont factory in 2020.
In under 4 years by the end of 2023, the Tesla Model Y had overtaken other Toyota models as the best-selling car in the world by selling over 1.2 million cars globally.Ā
RizĀ is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.