Tesla smashes quarterly delivery numbers for the first time this year as EV credits expire

Good news from Tesla came as no surprise on Thursday morning: The EV company delivered a blockbuster quarter as the automaker raced to sell its cars before the US tax credit incentive expired earlier this week. Tesla delivered 497,000 vehicles in the third quarter, a jump of more than 100,000 cars compared to its second quarter, and some 37,000, or over 7%, more than in Q3 2024. Wall Street analysts had forecast that Tesla would deliver around 440,000 vehicles in the quarter. Alongside delivery numbers, t ...