In early December 2021, Tesla sold a limited number of "whistles" in the United States, and although everyone did not know what this thing was for, it was still sold out.
Today, Tesla whistles are on sale in China. On January 5, Tesla's official website in China showed that the whistle was out of stock. This whistle is called "Cyber Whistle", and the domestic price is 350 yuan.
Interestingly, when Apple put on the polishing cloth of 145 yuan before, Musk deliberately tweeted: Don't waste money on the stupid Apple polishing cloth, come and buy a Tesla whistle!
Nowadays, Musk sincerely does not deceive me, Tesla whistle "grab is to earn", appreciation space is comparable to financial products. Because tesla whistle official channels are difficult to find, in a second-hand platform such as a fish, its price has even been speculated to more than 1,000 yuan.
From the empty wine bottle priced at 779 yuan by Tesla before it was robbed, to the current whistle being robbed, some people praised the "true fragrance" around Tesla, and some people lamented that Tesla repeatedly harvested the "IQ tax". However, the formation of this phenomenon is inseparable from the increasingly strong development momentum of the Tesla brand.
According to the data, Tesla's global cumulative delivery of more than 936,000 vehicles in 2021, an increase of 87% over 2020. Although the association has not yet announced Tesla's sales in China in 2021, according to the delivery of more than 400,000 tesla gigafactories in the first 11 months of 2021, half of Tesla's sales are from "Made in China".
Pretty delivery data drove Tesla's stock price soaring. On the first trading day of the US stock market in 2022, Tesla's stock price rose by 13.53%, with a total market value of $1.2 trillion and a market value increase of $143.6 billion (about 912 billion yuan).
Thanks to the soaring price of Tesla's stock price, Forbes estimates Musk's wealth to reach $304.2 billion, once again surpassing the $300 billion mark he briefly broke through for the first time last November.
Tesla delivers 930,000 units in 2021
For the whole of 2021, Tesla delivered more than 936,000 vehicles, an increase of 87% from 499,600 units in 2020, which not only exceeded the previous analysts' expectations, but even higher than Musk's expectations.
According to the data, Tesla delivered more than 308,000 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2021, with an average single-day sales of more than 3,400 vehicles, breaking the previous single-quarter record.
The two entry-level models, the Model 3 and Model Y, delivered 296,900 units in the fourth quarter of 2021 and 911,200 units for the full year, contributing more than 97% of total sales. Among them, Model Y topped the global electric vehicle sales for the first time in November last year with sales of more than 44,000 units.
In terms of the domestic market, at present, the Association has not yet announced Tesla's annual delivery volume in China, but Tesla has exceeded 50,000 wholesale volume for many consecutive months. The data shows that in the first 11 months of 2021, Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory delivered more than 400,000 vehicles.
At the same time, Tesla has opened more than 1,000 superchargering stations, more than 9,000 superchargering stations and more than 700 destination charging stations in Chinese mainland, and has also opened more than 240 experience and service centers, covering more than 360 cities and regions.
Like other car companies, Tesla also encountered difficulties such as lack of cores and epidemics in 2021, but it relied on excellent software capabilities to make up for losses, making the company's performance in dealing with the lack of cores with ease.
Musk has more than $11 billion in taxes
At the same time, Musk will also pay a record amount of taxes.
In December 2021, Tesla CEO Musk said on social media. "I'm going to pay more than $11 billion in taxes this year."
Musk subsequently sold 583,611 shares of Tesla stock, bringing the total number of shares he sold to 13.5 million, about 80 percent of what he plans to sell. Notably, of the 13.5 million shares sold, 8.06 million were sold to pay the relevant taxes required to exercise the options.
"I've sold enough stocks, plus options exercised, that I've basically made the promise of selling 10 percent of the stock." Musk said in an interview with foreign media.
If Musk's promises are kept, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will receive its largest tax payment to date.
According to wind statistics, of the 4,665 A-share stocks, 4,436 companies (more than 95%) have a market value of less than 70.2 billion yuan. In other words, 95% of the market capitalization of A-share companies is not worth Musk's one-year tax.
Musk's wealth is closely related to Tesla's stock. In 2020, Tesla's stock price rose more than 7 times, Musk's wealth increased by more than $150 billion in one year, and its ranking in the rich list jumped from dozens to the top.
In 2012, Musk nominally owned 25.5 million spin-off adjusted Tesla options, and officially received 22.9 million of them after Tesla's business improved in the following years.
It's worth noting that he doesn't have to pay taxes on them until he exercises these options to buy stocks.
These options will expire in August 2022, and exchanging them for shares will need to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A stock swap is a buy-in, and it must be taxed on income — and for the world's richest man, he faces a tax rate of 40.8%, which already brings a valuable tax.
In addition, Musk bought one hand and sold the other, and has sold 7.5 million tesla shares since the beginning of November 2021, bringing a profit of up to $7.8 billion.
At a 20 percent long-term capital gains tax rate, plus the 5.4 million shares he previously held in trust but have also sold, Musk's 2021 stock transaction tax bill totals $8.4 billion.
But that doesn't end there, with predictions that given Musk's possible exercise of the remaining options that will expire next year, his tax will eventually reach a level of around $11 billion.
According to the Nandu Big Data Research Institute, the annual salary of the US president is about 400,000 US dollars, which can at least pay the US president 2750 years of salary.
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