2018 Tesla Model 3 5YJ3E1EA-J — all VINs
21,108 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 5YJ3E1EA-J means
- 5YJ
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Tesla registered — assembled in the United States
- 3E1EA
- together encode the Model 3 line — Sedan, Electric — as Tesla filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- J
- in position 10 — model year 2018
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.