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Elon Musk announced the results of the second quarter sales of the electric car company Tesla, and the news is that for the first time in the history of the company made a profit of more than $ 1, 000 millions of dollars.
The exact profit was $ 1, 104 million or 1. 02 dollars per share, an amount well above the same quarter of the year 2020 . At that time the profit was $ 104 million dollars or what is equal to 10 pennies per share. Total revenue was $ 11, 800 million dollars, compared to $ 6. 040 million a year ago which represents an increase of 98%,
Although Tesla shares did not gain more than 1% in trading after this call. For Musk, currently the shortage of chips remains “quite dire”, currently Tesla has used alternative chips in the face of uncertainty about how long the shortage will last.
All this information It was supplied by Elon Musk himself in a meeting with his investors . Musk took advantage of the moment to notify them that “do not expect him to call and from these announcements the next meeting, except if it is something super important.”
“Obviously I will do the annual shareholders meeting, but I think that from now on I will most likely not be on the earnings calls unless there is something really important that I have to say. ”
Musk referred to the boredom of the questions they asked him in the conference call and he said that “he either worked or answered questions.” It should be remembered that Elon Musk is not only in charge of the electronic company Tesla, but also SpaceX and The Boring Company, but on other occasions he has made it clear that he is more entertained by engineering work than perhaps the one that corresponds to him to do in Tesla as CEO.
A few days ago, Musk was back in the news with the topic of cryptocurrencies, specifically when talking about Bitcoin, well Everything seems to indicate that he is changing his mind and that Tesla will probably accept bitcoins as a payment method again.
The Tesla CEO’s last hint regarding bitcoin in relation to electric cars was at the beginning of the month of June, when he published a Tweet with a meme that referred to the breakup of a couple and added the icon of Bitcoin and a broken heart to his tweet. This hint of a breakout managed that nothing else in the first hours of that day, the bitcoin traded below the 36, 000, fell 8% with compared to the previous day’s price.