Tesla says battery shortage hampered car deliveries - lithium ion batteries for sale
But Tesla said Monday it failed to do so in the second quarter.
Tesla delivered 22,000 cars in the second quarter.
Compared to the same period last year, this figure increased by 53%, but this figure only helped the company achieve 47,100 deliveries in the first half of 2017.
This is the low end of the delivery target Tesla told investors it wants to achieve.
Tesla said the problem was a "serious" shortage of battery packs manufactured using new technology on the new production line.
The company said that once the problem was resolved, orders and deliveries were strong in June.
Related reports: Tesla will deliver the first Model 3 car this month. Tesla CEO Musk announced the company's Model 3--its first mass-
Electric vehicle market-
Going offline this week.
Musk said the company will soon increase production and expects to produce 20,000 cars a month by December and 40,000 cars a month at some point in 2018.
Meanwhile, Tesla says it wants to build more factories to produce lithium.
Ion batteries required for production.
Earlier this year, the company said it wanted to open up to three new locations for its "Gigabit plant.
"It opens up a huge, 5. 8 million-square-
At the Ford plant in Nevada earlier this year. --
Jethro Mullen of CNNMoney contributed to the story.