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title: "Tesla Order and Delivery Guides | Delivery Status"
description: "Plain guides to the Tesla order wait: what each step means, what comes after your VIN, and how long deliveries take for other buyers."
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Guides

# Guides for the Tesla wait.

What each step of a Tesla order means, written from the questions people ask while they wait.

Written by Jaap Rodenburg, who builds the app, with numbers from the app's own order data.

1. [Guide · 8 min readWhich ship is my Tesla on, and how long does the trip take?36.5 daysmedian at sea from Shanghai to Southampton](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-ships-routes-transit-times)
2. [Guide · 8 min readHow accurate is Tesla's estimated delivery window?52%of delivered orders arrived inside the first window](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-window-accuracy)
3. [Guide · 9 min readTesla Roadster reservation: what buyers know so far.$50,000US reservation for Performance, not the price of the car](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-roadster-reservation-what-buyers-know)
4. [Guide · 7 min readTesla VIN assigned: what happens next.17 daysmedian from VIN to delivery for Berlin cars in Europe](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-vin-assigned-what-happens-next)

Latest guide

## [Which ship is my Tesla on, and how long does the trip take?](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-ships-routes-transit-times)

Eight tracked car-carrier voyages took a median 36.5 days from Shanghai to Southampton. Which factory builds your car, its ports and time to delivery.

- Every UK Model 3 with a VIN in the app was built in Shanghai (536 of 536), and so were 535 of 539 Canadian Model 3s. UK Model Ys all came from Berlin (339 of 339).
- Car carriers the app follows took a median 36.5 days from Shanghai to Southampton (8 voyages) and 37 days to Zeebrugge (6 voyages). Shanghai to Japan took about 8 days.
[Read the guide ](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-ships-routes-transit-times)Updated 29 October 2026 · 8 min read

## All guides

1. [Which ship is my Tesla on, and how long does the trip take?Eight tracked car-carrier voyages took a median 36.5 days from Shanghai to Southampton. Which factory builds your car, its ports and time to delivery.Updated 29 October 2026 · 8 min read**36.5 days**median at sea from Shanghai to Southampton](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-ships-routes-transit-times)
2. [How accurate is Tesla's estimated delivery window?52% of Tesla orders arrived inside the first delivery window. Data from orders tracked in Delivery Status on how often it moves and what a VIN changes.Updated 22 October 2026 · 8 min read**52%**of delivered orders arrived inside the first window](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-delivery-window-accuracy)
3. [Tesla Roadster reservation: what buyers know so far.A Roadster reservation costs $50,000 in the US. Tesla has named no price and says it cannot guarantee delivery. What the terms say and what is unknown.Updated 16 October 2026 · 9 min read**$50,000**US reservation for Performance, not the price of the car](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-roadster-reservation-what-buyers-know)
4. [Tesla VIN assigned: what happens next.What a Tesla VIN means, what Tesla asks you to do after it, and how long delivery took for over 1,200 European orders tracked in Delivery Status for Tesla.Updated 15 October 2026 · 7 min read**17 days**median from VIN to delivery for Berlin cars in Europe](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-vin-assigned-what-happens-next)
5. [How long from Tesla order to VIN, by country and factory.Median days from Tesla order to VIN for Model Y in 16 countries and per factory, from orders tracked in Delivery Status for Tesla, with what moves the wait.Updated 15 October 2026 · 6 min read**17 to 114 days**median from order to VIN for Model Y, by country](https://deliverystatus.app/guides/tesla-order-to-vin-by-country)

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