Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, July 3rd 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Tesla shocked a lot of people yesterday.

After a big sales drop at the start of the year, Tesla announced yesterday that it sold

a lot more cars than anyone expected in its latest quarter.

And what is most crucial, they seem to be selling a lot more model threes than anyone anticipated.

With the reporting of the company's sales figures today it was disclosed that Tesla achieved

production of 87,048 vehicles and deliveries of 95,200 vehicles.

Both of these figures are new highs for the electric vehicle maker and come in above most analysts expected

numbers for the quarter.

In detail, Tesla produced 14,517 and delivered 17,650 model S and X vehicles.

The company combined those two numbers in their reporting

and produced 72,531 and delivered 77,550 model 3 vehicles.

As you may have noticed, the model 3 is out selling the other two Tesla models combined

at a rate of more than 4 to 1.

The model 3 has been the best-selling Tesla since the

small car's debut, but obviously the extent of the difference between the model's

sales is such that Tesla now just combines X&S numbers into one category."

Tesla's next quarterly earnings report is scheduled for the end of this month.

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