NEW YORK: Tesla reported a dip in full-year auto gross sales Thursday (Jan 2), lacking an organization forecast in an indication of rising electrical car competitors in China and different main markets.
Elon Musk’s EV firm reported 495,570 fourth-quarter deliveries, taking the full-year complete to simply underneath 1.8 million automobiles.
This was about 1.1 per cent lower than the 2023 gross sales, whilst Tesla mentioned in October that it anticipated a “slight development” in car deliveries for the yr.
The determine caps a combined 2024 for Tesla, a yr through which Musk dove full-on into US electoral politics.
He helped to deliver the presidency to Republican Donald Trump through massive contributions and the amplification of anti-immigrant and different Trump rhetoric on Musk’s X platform, the previous Twitter.
