Tesla builds its 3 millionth car in factory once run by Toyota

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 that’s 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.

The Tesla Fremont factory has been a pivotal part of Tesla’s 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. 

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.

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.