Tesla has remodeled three million automobiles, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday. Of that whole, Tesla’s Shanghai manufacturing facility has made a million automobiles, in response to the tweet.

“Congrats Giga Shanghai on making millionth automotive! Complete Teslas made now over 3M,” Musk tweeted.

Musk’s announcement comes after months of lockdowns and parts shortages in China that threatened Tesla’s car manufacturing, and means that Tesla’s Shanghai manufacturing facility is producing a major variety of new automobiles after opening in 2019 and subsequent years of investment.

The entire automobiles achievement celebrated by Musk on Sunday comes after Tesla’s reported deliveries, the closest approximation for gross sales, have been rising in current quarters. In July, Tesla stated that it delivered 254,695 automobiles within the second quarter, a 26.5% rise year-over-year.

However the milestone additionally highlights how small Tesla is in comparison with automotive giants. For instance, Toyota delivered over 10 million automobiles in 2021 alone. Tesla stated earlier this 12 months it plans to extend car deliveries by 50% yearly.

Along with its Shanghai plant, Tesla produces automobiles at factories in Fremont, California; Austin, Texas; and close to Berlin in Germany. Musk said in July that the Fremont manufacturing facility, the corporate’s first, had made 2 million automobiles.

In June, Musk stated he needed to get the Shanghai plant “again within the saddle” and lamented that Tesla’s Berlin and Austin factories had been “cash furnaces” shedding “billions of {dollars}” due to provide chain and manufacturing points.

Tesla inventory is down almost 25% in 2022 as buyers have been reassessing fast-growing firms within the face of inflation and macroeconomic considerations. Musk offered over 7 million shares of Tesla final week value about $6.88 billion as he’s concurrently tied up in litigation over his efforts to terminate an settlement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion.