results missed market expectations. delayed results, a missed market expectations. tesla s income and earnings fell by more than 20% in this past quarter compared to the same time last year. it is a big number, but not totally unexpected because the company has been slashing prices of its top selling vehicles over the past year. samira hussain has more from new york. bringing in 20% less income is, well, not good. what helps the electric car maker, however, is that it warned wall street this was coming, so it didn t come as a complete surprise given tesla cut prices on its top selling cars several times last year and in fact did it again this week. now, tesla is grappling with higher borrowing costs for consumers, slowing demand for their cars and so much more competition in the electric car market. so the price cuts did the trick. the company saw a 36% jump in deliveries, but the price cuts also mean that the profit margins on each card sold have gotten smaller. let s stay w
company s income and earnings both fell by more than 20% in the past quarter compared to the past quarter compared to the same period last year. it is a big number but not totally unexpected because the company been slashing prices of its top selling cars over the past year. more from new york. bringing in 20% less income is well, not good, what has helped the electric car maker is that it warned wall street this was coming. so it didn t come as a complete surprise, given tesla cut prices on its top selling cars several times last year, and in fact did it again this week. tesla is grappling with higher borrowing costs for consumers, slowing demand for their cars and so much more competition in the electric car market. the price cuts did the trick, the company saw a 36% jump trick, the company saw a 36% jump in deliveries, but the price cuts also mean that the profit margins on each car sold have gotten smaller. staying with the car sector because jaguar land rover is investin