AUSTIN, Texas—Tesla said Monday that sold a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, but the number fell short of CEO Elon Musk’s pledge to grow the company’s sales by 50 percent nearly every year.
The 2022 figure topped the prior record of 936,000 vehicles delivered in 2021, but it was shy of the 1.4 million needed to reach the company’s 50 percent growth target. Sales grew 40 percent year over year, while production climbed 47 percent to 1.37 million.
The shortfall came despite a major year-end sales push that included rare $7,500 discounts in the U.S. on the Models Y and 3, the company’s top-selling models.
Tesla Inc., which is based in Austin, Texas, also had to deal with rising cases of COVID-19 in China, which cut into production at its Shanghai factory….