Tesla Q2 sales jump 25 percent as automaker recovers from tough 2025

Tesla has released its second-quarter delivery and production report, showing the automaker is beginning to recover after a particularly rough sales year in 2025.

The company said it produced a total of 451,758 vehicles between April and June of this year, including 442,936 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, as well as 8,822 “other vehicles” such as the Cybertruck and the Tesla Semi. (The Model S and X were discontinued earlier this year.) That represents about a 10% increase compared to the second quarter of 2025, when it produced 410,244 vehicles.

Tesla also delivered 480,126 vehicles in total, including 467,762 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, and 12,364 other vehicles — about a 25% increase compared to the same period last year, when it delivered 384,122 vehicles. For Tesla, which sells directly to consumers, deliveries are a proxy for sales.

Last quarter, Tesla reported sales were up 6% year-over-year. Wall Street analysts had expected second-quarter sales of 400,000 to 420,000 vehicles.

The report comes as Tesla faces a string of negative headlines about the safety of its 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 prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to open an investigation. Days later, it was reported that Tesla had quietly settled a lawsuit stemming from another fatal crash involving FSD.

Meanwhile, Tesla’s robotaxi service is operating at a much slower and smaller scale than Elon Musk originally predicted. The service relies on a fleet of about 60 to 70 Model Y vehicles operating in a geofenced area in Austin, Houston, and Dallas.