Not long ago, the American car rental company Hertz reached a cooperation with Tesla and placed an order for 100,000 Tesla vehicles, becoming the largest new energy vehicle order in history. On October 29, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,Musk’s worth has reached 302 billion U.S. dollars, becoming the world’s first super-rich worth over 300 billion U.S. dollars.
It is reported that Musk will increase by more than 117 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, making him the richest person with the largest increase in value in 2021.
At the same time, Musk’s worth surpassed the market value of Toyota (US$246.5 billion) and Nike (US$260.3 billion), the world’s second largest car company.
In this regard, some netizens joked that “Musk can buy the entire Nike company with his own wealth.”
It is worth mentioning that Buffett, the tenth richest man in the world, is worth US$105 billion.
In other words,Musk made more money in the first 10 months of 2021 than Buffett made in 1991.
According to media reports, there was news yesterday that Hertz will continue to increase its orders with Tesla and is expected to expand the order to 150,000 vehicles.
Hertz said it intends to cooperate with Uber to provide 50,000 Tesla cars for Uber’s online car-hailing by 2023.
In addition, according to Tesla’s previous documents submitted to the SEC,In the third quarter of this year, Tesla’s revenue in the Chinese market reached US$3.113 billion, an increase of 78.5% year-on-year.
The document pointed out that in the first three quarters of this year, Tesla achieved a revenue of US$9.015 billion in China, accounting for approximately 25% of Tesla’s global revenue, making it the second largest market for Tesla after the United States.