It's hard to say how much they make on each car sold because they are purposely obscuring this. If you listen at 6:15 to the earnings call you'll hear them tot

It's hard to say how much they make on each car sold because they are purposely obscuring this. If you listen at 6:15 to the earnings call you'll hear them totally dodge a totally straightforward question on how many credits per car: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3147926-tesla-motors-tsla-q1-2015-results-earnings-call-webcast http://seekingalpha.com/article/3147926-tesla-motors-tsla-q1... Elon says credits sometimes sell for as little as 50%. They are rumored to be getting 9 credits for most cars sold in ZEV states (most cars in US). Credits are worth $5000 in offset fines. So $22k per car even at heavily discount ZEV prices.