Tesla has just become the first electric vehicle manufacturer to have assembled 1 million vehicles-an impressive feat for an automotive company that only released its first consumer car 12 years ago.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk congratulated his workforce on the exciting milestone by publishing a photo of the company's new Model Y to Twitter this week.

Since Tesla debuted The Roadster back in 2008, they have gone on to release the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. The company now plans on shipping their pre-ordered Model Ys to the public months ahead of their original fall 2020 deadline.

According to the company's January earnings report, they hope to ship at least 500,000 cars worldwide during the coming year.

Based on Tesla's cumulative sales, they finally overtook Chinese automaker BYD in December to become the world's largest electric automaker.

Now with the company's current production rate averaging an estimated 40,000 new cars a month, the EV trailblazer is set to become even bigger.

Congratulations Tesla team on making our 1,000,000th car!! pic.twitter.com/5M99a9LLQi

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2020

Congratulations Tesla team on making our 1,000,000th car!! pic.twitter.com/5M99a9LLQi