在特斯拉周三的财报电话会议上，埃隆·马斯克作出了他标志性的天方夜谭式预测，这种预测通常会让他的粉丝陷入狂喜：到2030年实现500万辆汽车交付。
On Tesla's earnings call Wednesday, Elon Musk made one of his patented pie-in-the-sky predictions that typically sends his fans into paroxysms of ecstasy: 5 million vehicle deliveries by 2030.
“我们的目标是到2030年左右实现年交付500万辆汽车，”他说。”我认为我们有很好的机会实现这一目标。”
"We were aiming for 5 million vehicles a year by approximately 2030," he said. "And I think we've got a good shot of achieving that goal."
考虑到马斯克倾泻而出的各种超级形容词——公司的Terafab芯片工厂“将成为世界上最有价值的建筑”，拥有“将跻身全球前20名的经济价值”；”特斯拉最终将占据所有乘客里程的大多数……
You'd be forgiven for missing the statement amid the veritable firehose of Musk superlatives - the company's Terafab chip factory "will be the most valuable building in the world" with "an economic value that's going to be placed in the top 20 countries"; "Tesla will end up being a majority of all passenger miles …