Elon Musk's DOGE detour, robots, tariffs, and more: Tesla earnings takeaways
- Tesla experienced a 71 percent drop in profit and a 20 percent drop in car sales in the first quarter of 2025, attributed to $595 million in carbon credit sales keeping the company profitable.
- Elon Musk announced the launch of 'fully autonomous' taxi rides in Austin, Texas, using Tesla Model Ys in June 2025.
- Musk reported that Tesla Optimus robots will be operational in Tesla factories by the end of the year.
- Musk stated he will significantly reduce his time with the Department of Government Efficiency in May 2025 to focus more on Tesla.
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Elon Musk's DOGE detour, robots, tariffs, and more: Tesla earnings takeaways
Tesla’s (TSLA) first-quarter earnings report was less about profits and more about pivots. The automaker and its CEO, Elon Musk, didn’t want to talk as much about the numbers — maybe for good reason — as much as they wanted to talk about the future.Read more...
Elon to reduce DOGE involvement after dismal Tesla earnings report
Tesla's quarterly results are in, and it seems the panic alarm finally went off. Analyst expectations for Tesla's first quarter of 2025 were already pretty grim, but Tesla handily beat them with a 71 percent drop in profit and a 20 percent drop in car sales, with the only thing keeping the company in the green for the quarter being $595 million in carbon credit sales.While the sales drop can partially be attributed to the launch of Tesla's updat…
Tesla's net profits plummet by 71% and Musk promises to reduce her dedication to DOGE to "one or two days" a week from May onwards
By early April, the company had already warned that its sales in the first quarter of 2025 had dropped 13% to 336,681 vehicles. But the financial results released are worse than expected by analysts.
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