Tesla’s Q2 sales jump 25 percent

# Tesla’s Q2 sales jump 25 percent Source: [https://www.theverge.com/transportation/957685/tesla-q2-2026-sales-production-delivery-report](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/957685/tesla-q2-2026-sales-production-delivery-report) [](https://www.theverge.com/authors/andrew-j-hawkins) Andrew J\. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10\+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation\. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State\. Tesla just[released its second\-quarter delivery](https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-second-quarter-2026-production-deliveries-and-deployments)and production report, showing that the automaker is starting to recover after[a particularly brutal sales year in 2025](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/870332/tesla-throws-in-the-towel-on-car-sales)\. The company said that 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” like the Cybertruck and the Tesla Semi\. \(The company[discontinued the Model S and X](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/869872/tesla-model-s-model-x-discontinue-optimus-robot-factory)earlier this year\.\) That represents about a 10 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2025, when the company produced 410,244 vehicles\. Tesla also said that it delivered a total of 480,126 vehicles, including 467,762 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, as well as 12,364 other vehicles — about a 25 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2025, when it delivered 384,122 vehicles\. \(For a direct\-to\-consumer company like Tesla, deliveries are a proxy for sales\.\) Last quarter, Tesla said its[sales were up 6 percent](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/905811/tesla-q1-2026-sales-deliveries-elon-musk)year over year\. Wall Street investors were[expecting Tesla to report](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/goldman-sachs-raises-tesla-delivery-120518682.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG1--NEziXpzD_jmlSxGDqgnHVfhmEKXIXupiRos70Tj5a50iJ5UbBKoHBUWw4UKY6VZbAHbIjXZ9DiPtxM2XYruTHHwk3PW4i8Mi8sBMAsKFnC9z4GJ3n_Jdkwbjr7TiRCo_mo0VuNVTAl5n6Ouq9fuawUypCD-TfBcsCyKRRQ3)sales of 400,000\-420,000 vehicles for the second quarter\. The report comes as Tesla is battling a string of negative headlines surrounding 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](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/955153/tesla-full-self-driving-texas-crash), but the crash prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to open an investigation\. Several days later, it was reported that Tesla[quietly settled](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/957672/tesla-settles-another-lawsuit-stemming-from-a-fatal-fsd-crash)a lawsuit stemming from another fatal crash involving FSD\. Meanwhile, Tesla’s robotaxi service is operating at a[much slower and smaller](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/947897/teslas-robotaxi-service-is-dramatically-smaller-and-slower-than-elon-musk-predicted)scale than Elon Musk originally predicted\. The service relies on a fleet of approximately 60 to 70 Model Y vehicles operating in a geofenced area in Austin, Houston, and Dallas\. **Follow topics and authors**from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates\. - Andrew J\. Hawkins