Tesla ramps up output in Berlin and Texas but hits target later than planned

Elon Musk and Tesla often set ambitious targets, and the company is often late meeting them

Joerg Steinbach, the regional economy minister of Brandenburg, has said Tesla would be moving to three shifts at the plant by the end of the year to bump up output. 

Tesla's German plant produced 3,000 cars last week for the first time, the carmaker has tweeted — but the milestone was reached over two months later than planned in both Berlin and Austin in Texas, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

The memo, which Reuters reported on in September, projected 3,000 units in weekly output from the Gruenheide plant near Berlin in the first week of October, and from Tesla's plant in Austin in the first week of November.