Tesla has produced its 10 millionth EV, with the milestone achieved at its first factory in Fremont, California. It happened to be the new Tesla Model Y in black.
Tesla shared a video of the new Model Y on the company’s X page with a picture of the car surrounded by the Fremont team. The caption on the video said: “Produced our 10 millionth Tesla globally at Fremont Factory this week! Only 6 years ago, Fremont Factory made our 1 millionth vehicle”.
The latest milestone also comes just 211 days after producing its 9 millionth car in late 2025. It took 12 years to produce its first million vehicles.
Of the ten million EVs produced, over 180,000 of these vehicles have landed in Australia over the last 11 years. More than 170,000 of these have been produced In China after Tesla switched the Australian supply plant from Fremont to Shanghai back in 2021.
As of 2021, the Tesla Shanghai plant is the only supply plant for Australia, with Model S and Model X vehicles no longer supplied into the local market.
Tesla also continues to manufacture and deliver the Model 3, Model Y and more recently the Model Y L from the Shanghai plant into the European market, which is its key export hub globally.
Producing 10 million EVs is a big achievement given the challenges the company faced when scaling production of the Tesla Model 3. According to Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, during the ramp up of the Model 3, it once went through “production hell” at the same Fremont factory in California.
Since then, millions of its electric vehicles (EVs) have hit the roads around the world, including the Model Y, which has been the world’s best-selling car for multiple years in a row, and has broken multiple monthly sales records in Australia in 2026.
You can find The Driven’s detailed EV sales data here: Australian electric vehicle sales by month in 2026; by model and by brand.
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