Rolls-Royce hit its highest sales volume in 117 years, and Tesla asked a partner law firm to fire a lawyer

1, January 17, according to the recently released statistics show that as one of the representative brands of luxury cars, Rolls-Royce sales volume in 2021 hit the highest annual sales in 117 years of history, reaching 5586 units, an increase of 49% year-on-year.

The CEO of Rolls-Royce said that the epidemic has made many consumers feel that their lives are short and they must enjoy life, coupled with the reduction of expenditure in some aspects, many people will be more willing to pay for luxury cars.

In addition, the entire luxury goods industry has performed well last year, and a recently released industry report shows that global personal luxury goods sales increased by about 29% last year to 283 billion euros, that is, more than 2 trillion yuan, which even exceeded 2019 before the epidemic.

2. On January 17, according to media reports, Tesla asked its partner law firm Cooley LLP to fire a lawyer, otherwise the law firm would lose Tesla as a customer.

Tesla wants the lawyers Fired by Cooley LLP to have worked at the SEC. In 2018, the lawyer interviewed Musk when the SEC investigated Musk's claim that he had received funding to take Tesla private. The investigation eventually reached a settlement, with Musk and Tesla agreeing to pay a $20 million fine each, and Musk agreeing to resign as Tesla's chairman and not be elected for three years.

In fact, late last year, Tesla's team of lawyers asked Cooley to fire the lawyer involved in the SEC investigation. But Cooley law firm did not fire the lawyer. Since last December, Tesla has changed Cooley's firm or hired other lawyers in several cases. According to people familiar with the matter, Musk's rocket company SpaceX has also stopped cooperating with the law firm on regulatory issues.

However, Tesla also hired david Misler, a former trial lawyer for the SEC, as management consultant.