Produce Model Y at high volumes
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 3 May 2019
- Due
- 31 Dec 2020
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2020
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“we expect to produce at high volumes by the end of 2020”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Tesla began Model Y deliveries in March 2020 and continued to ramp production throughout the year, confirming high-volume production status by the end of 2020.
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A Tesla, Inc. 10-Q filed 2021-04-28
“reductions in Model Y average costs per unit as compared to the prior period due to temporary under-utilization of manufacturing capacity at lower production volumes during our production ramp in the first half of 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Tesla, Inc. 10-K filed 2021-02-08
“Model Y is a compact sport utility vehicle (“SUV”) built on the Model 3 platform with seating for up to seven adults, which we began delivering in March 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -6.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (5 Feb 2021 to 10 Feb 2021). What this measures
Checked 30 Sep 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Product other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Produce
- Deliverable
- Model Y
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- Medium
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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