• Number of Tesla employees 2020

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The number of people employed full-time by Tesla and its subsidiaries came to 70,757 at the end of 2020. The staggering increase in Tesla's workforce came after a decline of around 1.6 percent between 2018 and 2019.

Meeting the demands of the electric vehicle industry

The general increase in the number of employees between 2010 and 2020 is in line with growing production, as Tesla works to provide electric vehicles for the broader market. In the fourth quarter of 2020, Tesla produced around 180,000 vehicles. The size of the global market for electric vehicles is expected to reach 567 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2026.

Another manufacturing plant on the horizon

To reach these goals, in 2016 Tesla opened an electric vehicle factory called Gigafactory 1 located near Reno, Nevada. This is around the time that the number of Tesla employees increased. In order to get a foothold in the Chinese auto market, a Shanghai-based manufacturing plant began construction in 2018. Tesla is currently building a manufacturing plant near Berlin, Germany.

Number of Tesla employees from July 2010 to December 2020

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Release date

February 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

July 2010 to December 31, 2020

Supplementary notes

* This value is taken from the Tesla Motors Company Overview Summer 2011 presentation, published by Tesla in July 2011.

** Includes subsidiaries' employees.

The figures for 2010 through 2019 were taken from previous annual reports.
Tesla went public in July 2010; all other figures are for the fiscal years ending December 31.
Employees are full-time employees.