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The annual sales of 500,000 vehicles, but why Tesla still does not “truly” profit?

As we all know, the new forces of the car should be very difficult, and the time is more powerful in China, and the time is more powerful, Xiaopeng, and the ideal has not realized real profit. In fact, this is not difficult to understand, after all, the traditional car manufacturers have passed the road for decades, and now the new power company, I want to turn the car through the pure electric car to overtake, but it is not so easy, but to say the car new forces Turcela is not profitable, there may be many people will not believe it.

Because 2020 Tsra sells 490,000 pure electric vehicles, it is the world’s largest new year-in-life company, and Tesla’s market value is still so high. How can such a company not profitable?

Tesla has been profitable for 7 consecutive quarters

According to the data released by Tesla, the fourth quarter of 2020 Sales increased by 46% year-on-year to $ 1074.4 billion, and final profit was $ 270 million, an increase of 2.6 times. The sales of $ 3566 million in 2020, the final profit is $ 721 million, which is a large profit since the IPO since 2010. In the first quarter of 2021, sales increased by 74%, reaching $ 1039.9 billion, net profit for $ 432 million ($ 16 million last year). Thanks to the growth of China’s market sales, the company maintains the final surplus for the seventh quarter.

The reason why Tesla is so good, first of all, I still want to thank the Chinese market. But if you carefully analyze, Tesla’s sales will find some embarrassment.

Tesla earnings mainly rely on the sale of carbon dioxide credit line

However, it was observed that Tesla’s income structure In 2020, the revenue of the carbon dioxide credit line reached 158 billion US dollars, compared to the 2019 $ 594 million almost three times, which has won more than $ 3.3 billion in the past five years. . In the end, Tesla has recently reached 31.536 billion US dollars in 2020, with credit revenue to 5 percentCompare; the company’s annual net profit is $ 721 million: This means that if there is no credit sales income, the company is still unprofitable. Bloomberg quoted Swiss credit data, expect Tesla 2021 green credit income or will reach $ 2 billion.

However, since most global automakers have rapidly increase the sales of battery electric vehicles, Tesla selling carbon dioxide credit is also constantly decline. For example, FCA has purchased $ 2.4 billion in carbon dioxide credit lines from Tesla since 2019, which may no longer need to purchase.

In the first quarter of 2021, Tesla’s deficit still exists

in the first quarter of 2021, Tesla The carbon dioxide credit amount sales profit is $ 118 million, accounting for 10% of its $ 1.5 billion Bitcoin investment. In other words, in addition to the sale of car sales, it also achieved a profit of $ 611 million. Plus net income of $ 438 million, which means that the deficit continues to exist.

At the same time, Tesla sales in the first quarter of 2021 were 184,877, an increase of 2.1 times higher than the same period last year. This is the highest quarterly revenue record in history. This fall, Tesla will also start production in Berlin, Germany. This is Tesla in addition to the United States and the Chinese factory, the world’s third factory.

As one of the earliest born companies in the world, it is also the most successful car new forces, Tesla, no doubt, has always attracted the attention of global eyes. It is because there is a model of Tesla, which has born a lot of new car new forces. Every step of Tesla is seemingly different from traditional automakers.

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