特斯拉業績表現強勁 市值有望趕超福特

Tesla, which reports full-year earnings last Wednesday, was worth $44.6 billion, while Ford clocked in at $49.9 billion. So the electric automaker only needs to gain another 12% to catch Ford at its current valuation.

特斯拉公司於上週三報告了其價值446億美元的全年盈餘，而福特公司的全年盈餘則爲499億美元。因此，特斯拉全年盈餘只需增長12%，就可以趕超福特的市值。

Certainly Tesla, which is much smaller than Ford, is growing much faster. Tesla's value has climbed 30% since the start of this year, while Ford's has increased 5%.

相比於福特，儘管特斯拉的規模小得多，但其發展迅速。自今年年初以來，特斯拉的市值已經攀升了30%，而福特僅增長了5%。

Ford was worth twice as much as Tesla as recently as a year ago, and less than four years ago it was worth 10 times as much.

一年前，福特的市值是特斯拉的兩倍，而在不到四年之前，它的市值是特斯拉的10倍。

Ford is one of the world's iconic automakers, and founder Henry Ford is the father of the modern assembly line.

福特是世界上標誌性的汽車製造商之一，其創始人亨利·福特是現代裝配線之父。

And unlike rivals General Motors and Chrysler, it avoided bankruptcy in 2009, which wiped out those automakers' shareholders.

與競爭對手--通用汽車和克萊斯勒不同的是，它在2009年成功避開了那次嚴重打擊汽車製造商的股東們的破產事件。

Tesla, led by superstar CEO Elon Musk, is the top electric carmaker, but it's still is a small niche player compared to the major automakers.

特斯拉是最大的電動汽車製造商，其首席執行官是超級巨星伊隆·馬斯克，但與主要的汽車製造商相比，特斯拉規模並不大。

Tesla has sold 76,000 cars last year, compared with Ford, which sold 6.7 million cars and trucks worldwide. Tesla expects to report full-year revenue of about $7 billion, compared with Ford's annual revenue of $152 billion.

去年，特斯拉共售出了76000輛汽車，而福特的銷售量則是670萬輛汽車和卡車。據估計，特斯拉全年營業額約爲70億美元，而福特的營業額爲1520億美元。

But investors are betting on the company's future prospects, especially the sale of its first mass market car, the Model 3, which is due to go on sale late this year.

但投資者們更關注的是特斯拉公司的前景，特別是其第一款大衆版汽車—Model 3的銷量。Model 3預計今年下半年上市，其售價約爲35000美元。

The company has already taken orders for more than 300,000 of the Model 3, which will have a list price of about $35,000.

截至目前，該公司接到的訂單數量已經超過30萬份。