Elements shortages and pandemic-related manufacturing shutdowns at Tesla’s plant in Shanghai precipitated an enormous drop within the electrical automotive maker’s newest international automobile deliveries, in accordance with figures launched on Saturday. The US automaker said it had delivered 254,000 autos within the second quarter. Although up 27 per cent from a yr earlier than, the Chinese language shutdowns introduced its first sequential quarterly drop in additional than two years. The supply determine was nicely beneath the 350,000 that Wall Avenue had been anticipating at the start of the quarter, although analysts began scaling again their forecasts in late April after...