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Tesla is closing out 2025 strong, with the company’s 9 millionth vehicle rolling off the production line at Gigafactory Shanghai this week. The milestone was confirmed in a post shared by Tesla Asia on X, marking another major production achievement for the electric vehicle maker as it heads into the new year.
“Our 9 millionth vehicle globally has just rolled off the production line at Giga Shanghai. Thanks to our owners and supporters around the world,” Tesla Asia wrote in the post, which included a photo of the Giga Shanghai team gathered around a white Model Y on the factory floor. While the vehicle itself was built in China, the milestone represents Tesla’s cumulative global production across all of its factories worldwide.
The achievement didn’t go unnoticed by Tesla leadership. Senior Vice President of Automotive Tom Zhu congratulated factory teams across the globe, thanking Tesla owners for their continued support as production continues to scale.
Hitting nine million vehicles is especially notable given how quickly Tesla reached the milestone. Just 207 days ago, the company announced it had built its eight millionth vehicle globally, a red Model Y produced at Giga Berlin. Producing one million vehicles in under seven months underscores how aggressively Tesla has been ramping up output in 2025.
Giga Shanghai has played an outsized role in that growth. Tesla celebrated building four million vehicles at the Shanghai factory alone just weeks ago, meaning the site is now responsible for just under half of Tesla’s total global production to date. The factory, which produces the Model 3 and Model Y for both China and international export markets, remains Tesla’s highest-volume plant and its primary vehicle export hub.
Tesla also boosted Giga Shanghai production heading into Q4 2025, and the site hit another major benchmark last month when it produced its five millionth battery pack. Those battery packs are critical for Tesla as it looks to pump out even more vehicles, including region-exclusive variants like the hot-selling Model Y L in China.
As Tesla continues to expand capacity across its global manufacturing footprint, the nine million vehicle milestone highlights just how far the company has come in a relatively short period of time — and suggests that the next million may arrive even faster.
