The world’s largest maker of electric cars struggled with production problems in China.
The electric carmaker had to close an important factory in Shanghai because of China’s efforts to stamp out a coronavirus outbreak.
La enorme disparidad entre los resultados de la empresa de autos eléctricos y los de reconocidos fabricantes de carros el año pasado refleja el cambio tecnológico que sacude al sector.
The yawning disparity between the performance of the electric car company and established automakers last year reflects the technological change roiling the industry.
After struggling to produce cars because of a global computer chip shortage, automakers are trying to move quickly to making electric vehicles.
The limited supply of new and used vehicles is forcing some Americans to go to great lengths to find and buy them, including traveling to dealers hundreds of miles away.
Carmakers say new models should also help lift the industry in 2021, after a 15 percent decline in its slowest year since it recovered from the Great Recession.