The US car maker Tesla Has missed the expectations of Wall Street for the past quarter. The sales of the electric car manufacturer increased by 2 percent to $ 25.7 billion in the year. However, analysts had expected around $ 27.3 billion on average.
The quarterly win (October to December) increased to around $ 2.4 billion compared to the previous quarter. With an adjusted result per share of $ 0.73, Tesla also missed the analyst expectations of $ 0.76 per share.
The stock fell by around 3 percent in the after-excessive US trade, then recovered and even increased over $ 400. Most recently, she noted an increase of almost 4 percent. In mid-December, Tesla’s share had reached a record high of $ 480. The recovery of the share, after Tesla had confirmed, started to bring a cheaper entry model onto the street in the first half of 2025.
Sales decline 2024
In 2024 Tesla had suffered the first decline in the deliveries of its electric cars for more than a decade. That of Tech billionaire Elon Musk Guided US manufacturers delivered almost 1.79 million vehicles to customers. That was 19,355 less than in 2023. Musk had a slight increase in the prospect.
But Tesla should have brought 515,000 cars to customers in the final quarter. Despite a sales offensive, it was only 495,570 vehicles – at least a record value.
The Tesla share has been on a high flight since the US presidential election in November. The trigger is the proximity of Musk to US President Donald Trump.
Model palette comes into the years
Musk himself said that he saw Tesla “between two waves of growth”. He mainly relies on technology for autonomous driving and presented the prototype of a robot taxis without a steering wheel and pedals in October. With the proximity to Trump, Musk could build pressure for cheaper regulatory conditions for self -driving cars.
Meanwhile, critics of Tesla refer to an aging model range of the industry pioneer, in which only a niche model was added with the Elektro-Pickup Cybertruck.
Musk stirs up hopes for autonomous cars
Tesla boss Elon Musk fuels hopes for autonomously driving cars from his company this year. The technology had outgrown the infancy, said Musk. From June, the service will go into operation against payment in Austin in Texas, a driver would then no longer be necessary. From 2026 and in the years after that, the business will then take off. “There is no company that is as far as Tesla in artificial intelligence,” said Musk.
Musk said that the Full Self-Driving system is also likely to be approved in other regions in the United States. Unlike other companies that work on autonomous driving, Tesla at FSD only relies on cameras and dispenses with usual radar and lidar systems. So far, the system has only been approved as a driver assistance system, which means that the driver must keep control of the vehicle at any time.
At the same time, Musk was open to selling the software to other manufacturers. “There is significant interest in a number of car builators in licenses.”
Tailwind through Trump’s deregulation
On the stock exchange, hopes for a breakthrough in autonomous driving were acknowledged. Since US President Donald Trump took office, the company has clearly gained in the stock market value. “People read from the numbers that FSD and Robotaxis are potentially on the note in the next few years,” said Rhind, head of the ETF fund provider Graniteshares. Musk had introduced the cybercab, a two -seat vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals, in October 2024. The Robotaxi should run off the band in the Tesla factory in Texas from 2026.