Tesla has reported surging income, regardless of shortages of semiconductor chips and congestion at ports hampering manufacturing.

Gross sales rose to $12bn (£8.6bn) within the three months to the tip of June, up from $6bn a yr in the past, when its US manufacturing unit was shut down.

The electrical carmaker mentioned it delivered a file 200,000 vehicles to prospects in the identical interval.

It added that public help for greener vehicles was better than ever.

The corporate, led by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, reported on Monday that income soared off the again of robust gross sales.

Income for the second three months of the yr have been $1.1bn, up from $104m final yr, bolstered by gross sales of its cheaper Mannequin 3 sedan and Mannequin Y.

In an update to investors on Monday, Tesla mentioned: “Public sentiment and help for electrical autos appears to be at a never-before-seen inflection level.

“We proceed to work laborious to drive down prices and enhance our charge of manufacturing to make electrical autos accessible to as many individuals as potential.”

Tesla added that how shortly it may produce vehicles all through the remainder of the yr would depend upon the availability of key elements of its autos, with demand at “file ranges”.

On a name with monetary analysts on Monday, Mr Musk mentioned: “At this level, I believe everybody can agree, electrical autos are the one approach ahead.”

Mr Musk mentioned in the course of the name that the worldwide chip scarcity “stays fairly severe” and manufacturing would hinge on this “slowest a part of the availability chain”.

He additionally described late-night calls with suppliers in an try and resolve shortages.

In consequence, there have been rising ready instances for Tesla vehicles, particularly throughout Europe, the corporate mentioned in its outcomes.

It’s going to look to start out manufacturing at its new Berlin “gigafactory” as quickly as potential. It has been plagued by delays, though the corporate payments it as “probably the most superior high-volume electrical car manufacturing plant on the earth”.

It’s going to ramp up the manufacturing of its vehicles at its California hub within the meantime.

Mr Musk was also reportedly seen visiting Luton earlier this yr, sparking rumours he could also be contemplating a Tesla manufacturing unit within the UK.

Different automotive giants corresponding to Ford and Basic Motors have been pressured to droop manufacturing quickly in some US factories, having been hit by the worldwide scarcity of semiconductors.

Income at Tesla within the second quarter have been additionally dented, nonetheless, by different objects corresponding to investments within the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

It invested heavily in the digital currency previously. But it surely stopped taking Bitcoin as a type of fee earlier this yr due to Mr Musk’s considerations in regards to the environmental affect of Bitcoin mining, which makes use of enormous quantities of electrical energy.

The corporate reported a $23m loss on its Bitcoin investments on Monday, though its chief govt lately signalled it would settle for it once more in future.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives mentioned that this determine was, nonetheless, “a lot decrease than many had feared”.

He added that total, the set of outcomes marked a “step in the best path” for the corporate, with “wholesome” progress additionally seen in China, the place Tesla started manufacturing final yr.

Mr Ives did level out, nonetheless, {that a} large query for buyers could be when the corporate would be capable to hit profitability excluding the revenue it will get from reselling to different carmakers the credit that it earns for exceeding emissions and gas requirements.

Between April and the tip of June, it noticed $354m in revenues generated by the sale of such credit, down from $428m the identical interval a yr earlier than.