Tesla has sold one million electric vehicles in Europe in the latest major milestone for the Elon Musk-led brand.
Electric cars from the brand remain some of the most popular and best-selling vehicles in the UK, with the Model Y topping the car sales chart in March this year.
Posting on social media, the official Tesla Europe account posted a short video celebrating the milestone, accompanied by upbeat dance music.
A statement read: “14 years ago, we delivered the first Tesla Roadster to customers in Europe. Today, we hit one million Tesla vehicles on the road across Europe.
There are more than 1,100 Tesla Superchargers around the UK and Ireland
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“Thanks to our owners and supporters for helping us accelerate the transition to sustainable energy!”
There are more than 1,100 Tesla Superchargers across the UK and Ireland, with the rapid and ultra-rapid chargers helping drivers carry on their journeys.
Tesla sales in Europe are expected to grow further in the coming years following the opening of Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg.
Production began at the site in March 2022, with the factory reaching a run rate of 5,000 units a week in March 2023.
It is hoped that Tesla Giga Berlin will have a production capacity of half a million vehicles a year, with requests to up the production to one million.
On the Tesla website, drivers can make a custom order of the Model Y, Model 3 and Model S, as well as exploring the used stock of the Model X.
Earlier this year, Tesla announced that the Model X will not be sold in the UK or Ireland in right-hand drive format for the “foreseeable future”.
Tesla is not yet taking orders for the Cybertruck in the UK or the European Union, with the vehicle being built in Texas.
Based on the average lifetime emissions, the current number of Tesla vehicles on the road will save around 50 million tonnes of CO2.
If this total was scaled down to every car, the emissions totals would amount to the pollution produced by 50 round-trip flights between Barcelona and Los Angeles for an individual.
This comes as the long-awaited Tesla Cybertruck seems to be getting closer to the delivery stage, with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, stirring up excitement.
Very little has been said about the Cybertruck in recent months following Elon Musk’s initial announcement in 2019.
Pilot production of the rigid and metallic pickup trucks began in July 2023, with a delivery event set to take place on November 30.
In the initial introduction event, the vehicle designer, Franz von Holzhausen, aimed to demonstrate how the glass windows were virtually unbreakable.
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As part of the test, von Holzhausen threw a metal ball into the window, resulting in two windows shattering, with Musk reacting with laughter.
