How many bitcoins did Tesla earn from selling cars?

[Kittygalore]

Probably not a lot or just right because it's not like everyone wants to buy their Tesla with a bitcoin that could possibly go up in value meaning that they might be overpaying for it or something. Also, it's none of our business how many bitcoins did they earn from selling Tesla.

[bakasabo]

We will never know the number of cars sold for Bitcoin. Such a huge companies does not share that kind of statistics usually. We can only know total amount of cars sold per year. Also, I dont think that a lot of car were even sold for Bitcoin. An option to buy Tesla with Bitcoin was just a strategic move do get more attention to Tesla inc. This is just marketing and Bitcoin was just an instrument in it. Just take a look for example how tesla.com popularity changes when Elon Musk announce something connected with Bitcoin and Tesla.

[Ultegra134]

I highly doubt that they sold more cars than you could count on the fingers of one hand. It's pretty doubtful that Elon Musk was genuinely interested in receiving Bitcoin as a payment method, to me, it just looked like he simply wanted publicity and was also one of his ways to manipulate the market, suspecting that such incident would potentially spike prices.