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That was a 44% drop from November and 21% fewer than a year
earlier as the U.S. automaker reduced output and cut prices to
deal with rising inventories amid weakening demand.
It also marks the fewest monthly deliveries since July when most
production at Tesla's Shanghai plant was suspended due to an
upgrade to its production lines.
For the whole of 2022, the U.S. automaker delivered 50% more
vehicles produced in its Shanghai plant compared with 2021, the
CPCA data showed.
Globally, the electric vehicle (EV) maker's deliveries rose by
40% last year, missing CEO Elon Musk's 50% annual target.
Tesla suspended production at its Shanghai plant, its most
productive manufacturing hub, from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2 as part of
the output reduction efforts, Reuters reported previously.
Chinese rival BYD still led all brands in China's December EV
sales with 234,598 electric cars including plug-in hybrids and
pure EVs, more than quadruple Tesla's sales in the same month,
the CPCA data showed.
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co, the joint venture of General
Motors in China making small budget EVs, also outsold Tesla by
53%, according to the association.
(Reporting by Zhang Yan, Brenda Goh; editing by Frank Jack
Daniel and Mark Potter)
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