Musk is on the verge of becoming even richer than he found himself at the end of 2020, which made $ 10 billion in revenue with Tesla last quarter, a 46% year-on-year increase and a performance which is expected to cause another massive stock option. payout, the company would offset $ 2 billion in quarterly adjusted EBITDA.
“2020 has been quite a year for us on many levels,” Tesla CEO Zachary Kirkhorn said during the earnings call with reporters. ‘Despite a challenging environment. We have reached an important milestone with the manufacture and delivery of half a million cars. ”
The company also released figures from its other subsidiaries over the past quarter. Tesla’s home solar business reportedly delivered 60 percent more solar panels and nearly 200 percent more solar storage systems by 2021 than it did the previous year, as well as an increase of nearly 50 percent in its network of EV fast charging stations.
Tesla is apparently also OK with the release of its digital assistant in the wild. “I think we’re very open to licensing our software to third parties,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the earnings call. ‘We’ve had preliminary discussions about licensing motor pilots to other OEMs. So it was something we were more than happy to do. ”
As we look ahead, 2021 is perhaps our most important step forward, as we see the benefits of long-term investment in capacity and technology, ”Kirkhorn added. “The range of possible outcomes this year is huge, given the scale of the launches.”
Tesla expects delivery of its refurbished Model S and X vehicles soon, as well as the GigaFactory Shanghai and GigaFactory Berlin-built Model Y vehicles, to begin later this year, and at some point with the highly anticipated Tesla Semi- tractor connected. trailers. “If we are lucky, we can make some deliveries by the end of this year,” Musk admits, “but I expect production to take place in volume in 2022.”