Electric carmaker Tesla Inc which recently invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, has trimmed its position by 10% in the first quarter. Incidentally beating the Wall Street expectations for the first-quarter revenue, a boosted jump in the environmental credit sales is experienced. 

Tesla Posted Record Deliveries in Q1 Jumps in Credit Sales

Despite global chip shortage, Posting record deliveries in the first quarter slammed auto sector rivals. However, the profit was not driven by auto sales.

Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn said, “Tesla had invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin, trimmed its position by 10% during the quarter.” while according to Tesla, the proceedings from sales of digital assets calculates to $272 million with a $101 million “positive impact”.

Kirkhorn said, “We do believe long term in the value of bitcoin,” “It is our intent to hold what we have long term and continue to accumulate bitcoin from transactions from our customers as they purchase vehicles.”

Tesla Out Performs Wall Street 

According to statistics, Tesla has reported continuous profits for seven quarters, where most of which were driven by the environmental credits. In the recent tweets, Elon Musk acknowledged that no trading was made from his Bitcoin account.  

Roth Capital Partners analyst Craig Irwin said

“Higher regulatory credits, lower taxes, and bitcoin sales buoyed financial results. Back these out, and it was a large miss,”

Earning $518 million from sales of those credits, Tesla is up 46% from a year earlier. The electric car-making company earns credits for exceeding emissions and fuel economy standards. Which they sell to other automakers that fall short.

Tesla’s quarterly performance hit targets qualifying the billionaire entrepreneur for two options payouts worth a combined $11 billion. From the latest, Tesla’s surge in the revenue calculates to 74%, reporting the net income of $438 million during the quarter, as well as earnings of 93 cents per share on $10.39 billion in revenue.