Tesla outpaced analyst estimates for second-quarter vehicle deliveries on Thursday, defying a trend of plummeting sales in the wider auto industry and sending its shares up 8%.
Tesla on Wednesday became the highest-valued car maker as its shares surged to new record highs and the electric vehicle maker’s market capitalisation overtook that of former front runner Toyota.
Tesla has grown from Silicon Valley gadfly to the world’s second largest automaker by market capitalisation in the decade since its initial public offering. It’s been a roller-coaster ride.
Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator, plans to expand its use of batteries from Tesla for its operations beyond providing backup power at base stations.
Politicians and pundits say the world’s largest economies are bound for a seismic “decoupling”. Yet, with businesses harbouring long-term ambitions for these two giant markets, breaking up may be hard to do.
The surge in Tesla’s shares so far this month moved Elon Musk’s company even closer to displacing Toyota as the world’s most valuable car maker.
Volkswagen will narrowly meet a deadline to start deliveries of its flagship ID.3 electric car, but early buyers will have to wait months for all the features to work.
Tesla’s stock jumped above $1 000/share on Wednesday after CEO Elon Musk told his staff it was time to bring the Tesla Semi commercial truck to “volume production”.
The Telsa CEO has called for Amazon.com to be broken up, after an author complained on social media about being unable to self-publish a book via the world’s largest online retailer.
Stocks were supposed to be mired in a bear market after they plunged in March as the coronavirus pandemic shut business and sent unemployment to its highest rate since the Great Depression. Except they aren’t.
