Tesla’s record 2019 has bought it some breathing room

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Tesla’s record-setting number of sales in 2019 also helped the electric automaker generate more money in one year than ever before, the company announced Wednesday afternoon. Tesla generated $24.6 billion in revenue in 2019, buoyed by a fourth quarter revenue figure of $7.4 billion.

Tesla still didn’t turn an annual profit — in fact, it lost $862 million in 2019. But that was better than the $1 billion loss the company posted in 2018. Tesla also finished the year with back-to-back profitable quarters, something it did for the first time ever in 2018. The company pulled down a $105 million profit in the fourth quarter, though we don’t yet know exactly how that was achieved. (For instance, the profit Tesla turned in the third quarter of...

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