washington tesla said sunday it delivered nearly one million vehicles in 2021 almost twice as many as in the previous year results that were better than expected despite global supply challenges the us electric carmaker delivered more than 936000 cars of all models in 2021 an increase of 87 percent over the previous year the company said in a statement tesla had announced last january that it was aiming to increase deliveries by 50 percent per year over several years so sundays results far exceeded that goal the group which recently moved its headquarters from palo alto california to austin texas sold 911208 model 3 and model y vehicles as well as 24964 vehicles of its luxury s and x models at a price of 90000 and 100000 respectively in the fourth quarter alone tesla delivered 308600 cars tesla has managed to overcome global logistics issues that have plagued the auto industry its chief elon musk previously said he was able to get around much of the semiconductor shortage by using new chip designs and rewriting software tesla got another boost in october when it received an order for 100000 electric vehicles from the rental company hertz to be completed by 2022 this announcement brought the automaker into the very select club of companies worth more than 1 trillion on the stock market tesla however finds itself under scrutiny from the nhtsa auto regulator which is probing its autopilot system over safety concerns the automaker has also agreed to update its software to prevent drivers from playing video games on the cars system while the vehicle is in motion following a government safety investigation