Tesla margins in focus as EV price war kicks into high gear

Written by Akash Sriram

According to( Reuters ), Tesla Inc. ‘ s first quarter margins are expected to have dropped by more than three years as the automaker cut prices to entice more customers in the face of intensifying competition and a fragile economy.

The most useful manufacturer in the world, which controls more than half of the U.S. EV market, reduced sticker prices on its vehicles five times between January and April. This action increased quarterly sales during the quarter ended March 31 but reduced its profit margin, the industry leader.

According to 17 analysts polled by Visible Alpha, Tesla is anticipated to report an auto gross margin of 23.2 % for the quarter, which is the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2019 and a record 32.9 % from the previous quarter.

Tesla’s’s automotive gross margin is expected to drop once more, according to https :// www.reuters.com / graphics / TESLA-RESULTS / lgvdkxqejpo / chart.png.

In January, Tesla finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn pledged that margins wouldn’t fall below 20 % and that each model’s’s average selling price would be$ 47,000 on average. However, analysts foresee additional cost reductions and allowance pressure.

We don’t think that will always be the case, especially given our desire that further cuts are good, according to a note from Bernstein analysts. Most people have expressed optimism that Q1 profits may become( at their ) bottom.

The business cut price on Friday in Singapore, Israel, and Europe. Since the beginning of the year, Tesla has decreased the cost of its base Model 3 by a total of 11 %, while lowering the price of Model Y by 20 %.

Even as consumers have reduced non-essential spending due to concerns about a potential crisis, which is putting pressure on the EV market, Tesla’s’s rivals like Ford Motor Co. have increased domestic competition. Tesla is attempting to catch up to BYD Co. in China, the country’s’s second-largest competition.

After employees learned that Tesla intended to reduce performance prizes, which are associated with the factory’s’s efficiency, according to online comments and workers, the company experienced problems at its Shanghai factory on Monday.

Elon Musk, a tycoon, has stated that increasing production at the company’s’s facilities in Austin, Texas, and Berlin will help increase profitability due to economies of scale.

This year’s’s drop in lithium price is also likely to be advantageous for Tesla, particularly in China where a decline in demand for EVs has caused assets of the metal to build up.

According to George Gianarikas, analyst at Canaccord Genuity,” It’s’s likely that Tesla will maintain its profits based on the reduction in commodity bills.”

Tesla plans to deliver 1.8 million vehicles this year, but Musk stated in January that the manufacturer may distribute 2 million if the situation is right.

How Tesla’s’s cars compare to EV prices can be found at https:// www.reuters.com / graphics / TESLA-ELECTRIC / STARTUPS / lgpdkxqbjvo / chart.png.

( Writing by Aditya Soni, reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru, and editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Shinjini Ganguli )

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