tesla chinamade model 3 vehicles are seen during a delivery event at the carmakers factory in shanghai china january 7 2020 reutersaly songfile photo san francisco april 19 reuters  tesla investors on wednesday will be keeping an eye on whether the electric car company maintains its ambitious 2022 delivery target as the biggest factory shanghai grapples with a covid19 shutdown and new plants slowly ramp up output tesla tslao reports quarterly results and analysts are also asking whether ceo elon musk will discuss his 43 billion proposal to buy twitter twtrn and if he will use some of his tesla shares to help fund the deal the covid19 related suspension of teslas shanghai factory combined with the costs of ramping up new factories in berlin and texas are likely to have weighed on its firstquarter earnings analysts said musk said in january that teslas volume growth would comfortably exceed 50 from last year meaning that tesla expects to deliver more than 14 million vehicles this year tesla navigated the global supply chain crisis better than other rivals posting record deliveries and earnings for several quarters but its factory in shanghai was suspended for more than three weeks after the city rolled out lockdown measures to combat a surge in covid19 cases tesla plans to gradually resume production this week in shanghai ill be looking for more longterm commentary for management how quickly do they expect them to get up to normal run rates are there any issues theyve had in production when do they expect its shanghai factory to resume full production morningstar analyst seth goldstein said you have a lot of fixed costs to get the new plants up and running but not a lot of production to spread the costs around he said the austin texasbased company is expected to report 1780 billion revenue for the january to march quarter up over 70 from a year earlier but largely unchanged from the previous quarter according to refinitiv data ​refinitivs mean analyst estimate for tesla is for earnings of 226 per share this is up from 93 cents per share a year earlier but on a quarter on quarter basis marks the first quarterly fall in two years musk delivered teslas first texasmade model y vehicles at a glitzy event early this month but no texas vehicles are listed on teslas order website yet read more itll probably be a while before the texas factory can get up to full speed guidehouse insights analyst sam abuelsamid said citing challenges of launching volume production of 4680 cells likely to be used in the texas vehicles analysts and investors also are asking how musks pursuit of twitter will affect his running of tesla musk ceo of spacex previously said he is splitting his time between tesla and the rocket company running twitter would be a possible distraction for a ceo that already has a full plate wells fargo said in a report even if he brings in private equity partners to his twitter bid he is going to be a substantial shareholder in the social media company meaning that he would likely have to have to sell some tesla stocks to finance the deal goldstein said musk said last week that he was not sure whether he would be able to acquire twitter and said he has a plan b if twitter rejected his offer