Tesla Model 3 vehicles are loaded onto a truck for transport at the company's manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

produced a record number of vehicles in the third quarter, said a report by electric vehicle blog Electrek, which cited unnamed sources.

The report said Tesla made about 80,000 cars in the last three months, which would be nearly as much as it produced in the previous two quarters combined.

That number includes 53,000 Model 3 sedans, squarely within Tesla's goal of producing between 50,000 and 55,000 Model 3s during the quarter. The Model 3 is Tesla's midsize electric sedan, and the car that is meant to turn Tesla into a mass manufacturer of electric vehicles.