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 top 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 document 200,000 automobiles to clients in the identical interval.

It added that public assist for greener automobiles was higher 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 replace to traders on Monday, Tesla mentioned: “Public sentiment and assist for electrical automobiles appears to be at a never-before-seen inflection level.

“We proceed to work laborious to drive down prices and enhance our fee of manufacturing to make electrical automobiles accessible to as many individuals as attainable.”

Tesla added that how rapidly it might produce automobiles all through the remainder of the yr would rely on the availability of key elements of its automobiles, with demand at “document ranges”.

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

Mr Musk mentioned throughout 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 to resolve shortages.

Consequently, there have been rising ready instances for Tesla automobiles, particularly throughout Europe, the corporate mentioned in its outcomes.

It’s going to look to begin manufacturing at its new Berlin “gigafactory” as quickly as attainable. It has been tormented by delays, though the corporate payments it as “probably the most superior high-volume electrical automobile manufacturing plant on this planet”.

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

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

Different automobile giants equivalent to Ford and Common 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, nevertheless, by different objects equivalent to investments within the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

It invested closely within the digital foreign money beforehand. But it surely stopped taking Bitcoin as a type of fee earlier this yr due to Mr Musk’s issues concerning the environmental influence 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 government just lately signalled it’d settle for it once more in future.

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

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

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

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