Tesla Is Worth $1 Trillion Again. How It Bounced Back.

march 30, 2022 How Tesla Rejoined the Trillion Dollar Club How Tesla Rejoined the Trillion Dollar Club

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Tesla reached that milestone the same day it opened its German manufacturing facility just outside Berlin as U.S. gas prices hovered around $4.24 a gallon.

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Tesla first joined the trillion dollar club on October 25, 2021, but its market cap fell below $800 billion as recently as March 14, days before the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2018.

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Apple became the first public company in the U.S. to reach a trillion-dollar valuation on August 2, 2018.

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