Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

Silicon Valley’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made “approximately $1 million of earnings” on revenues of $20 million, and that it shipped 109 Roadsters, its $109,000 all-electric sports car. The revenues reflect GAAP accounting standards and are only for the month of July.

Founder and CEO Elon Musk predicted in June that the company would soon hit profitability at the end of a lengthy blog post dealing primarily with a lawsuit brought on by Tesla’s

ousted co-founder Martin Eberhard. In June, Tesla was additionally awarded a $465 million loan from the division of Energy, which will help it manufacture its more reasonably priced contemporary S sedan.

The $20 million in revenues and $1 million in profits do not reflect any proceeds from that loan, the company tells us.

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