Giga Texas celebrates 400,000th Model Y with rooftop display

Tesla has quietly marked a major milestone at Giga Texas with the production of its 400,000th Model Y. Instead of a formal announcement on X, as it has done with other production milestones, the company arranged dozens of red Model Ys on the roof of its parking structure, spelling out “400K” for local drone pilot Joe Tegtmeyer to capture during one of his regular flyovers.

Giga Texas news! 400K Model Y’s produced milestone! Big display using all red Model Ys on the parking garage this morning! Official production of the Model Ys here at Giga Texas began almost 3 years ago today! Congratulations @Tesla and all the Giga Texas employees! pic.twitter.com/w9rW8yVPi7
— Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer) April 9, 2025

Giga Texas officially opened on April 7, 2022, with a launch event dubbed the “Cyber Rodeo.” Production kicked off with the Model Y, and since then has expanded to include the Cybertruck. Currently the factory is being set up to produce the more affordable vehicles that are expected to debut this summer, and in the future will also produce the Cybercab.

According to the most recent update from Tesla in the Q1 2025 shareholder deck, Giga Texas has an installed Model Y production capacity of less than 250,000 units per year, a level it has been at since Q2 2022, while the Cybertruck’s production line capacity currently stands at less than 125,000 units.

The milestone also invites comparison to its European counterpart, Giga Berlin, which began deliveries just a few weeks before Giga Texas, in March 2022. Giga Berlin celebrated production of its 500,000th Model Y less than two weeks ago.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-giga-berlin-builds-500000th-model-y-as-factory-marks-three-years-of-production/

Here is a list of all Giga Texas production milestones over the years:

April 7, 2022: Giga Texas officially opes with the “Cyber Rodeo” event.
June 2022: Giga Texas reached a production run rate of 1,000 Model Y units per week.
September 2022: Tesla announced the production of the 10,000th Model Y at Giga Texas.
April 2023: Giga Texas hit a new milestone by producing 4,000 Model Y units in a single week.
May 2023: Tesla announced that Giga Texas achieved a production rate of 5,000 Model Y units per week, equating to an annual capacity of roughly 250,000 vehicles.
June 2024: Tesla builds 50 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas

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