Tesla narrowly missed its 2020 target to deliver 500,000 vehicles

In the last three months of 2020, Tesla announced record deliveries of its electric cars, coming within a whisker of achieving the half-million target set by its chief executive, Elon Musk. After a final quarter that met analysts’ estimates, the annual sales of the California-based producer increased by 36 percent, producing a total of 499,550 cars in 2020.