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Issuer of the disputed shares; reincorporated in Texas in 2024
When Tesla's board agreed in 2018 to pay Elon Musk in stock options if he hit a string of growth targets, the maximum theoretical value was about $56 billion—already the largest CEO pay package ever written. Eight years later, Tesla is moving to actually hand over the shares, and they are now worth more than $100 billion.
Updated Apr 28
Model S/X production ended April 2026; Fremont line converting to Optimus with production start late July–August; Gen3 reveal delayed to mid-year; no 2026 volume target given
Twelve months ago a humanoid robot crossed the finish line of Beijing's E-Town half-marathon in 2 hours and 40 minutes, the only one of twenty competitors that didn't overheat, fall over, or need duct-tape repairs. On April 20, 2026, a different robot finished the same 21.1-kilometer course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — faster than any human has ever covered the distance.
Updated Apr 26
Facing sales decline and leadership instability
Since April 2024, Tesla has lost more than a dozen senior executives: the heads of batteries, supercharging, North American sales (twice in a year), and operations across North America and Europe. Joe Ward -- who joined as a logistics intern in 2010 -- now runs global sales after Raj Jegannathan's abrupt departure. The exodus has left Elon Musk overseeing an unusually thin executive bench as the company tries to stabilize vehicle deliveries, defend margins against Chinese competitors, and ship the long-promised robotaxi and Optimus programs.
Updated Apr 23
Facing consecutive annual delivery declines and growing inventory
Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in the first quarter of 2026 — roughly 8,000 fewer than Wall Street expected — while producing over 50,000 more cars than it sold. That growing gap between production and deliveries signals something automakers dread: cars sitting on lots because buyers aren't showing up. The miss marks at least the fifth quarter in which Tesla has underperformed analyst expectations since early 2024.
Updated Apr 2
Pursuing semiconductor vertical integration
Every company designing custom artificial intelligence chips today — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft — pays someone else to manufacture them. Tesla just announced it will build and operate its own semiconductor fabrication plant, a $20 billion facility called TeraFab targeting the 2-nanometer process node, the most advanced manufacturing technology in existence. No company without decades of chipmaking experience has ever attempted this.
Updated Mar 21
Expanding robotaxi pilot, under federal investigation
Tesla promised its robotaxis would be safer than human drivers. Seven months into its Austin pilot, the company's own crash reports tell a different story: one collision per 55,000 miles, roughly nine times worse than the human average. Every crash occurred with a trained safety monitor in the vehicle who could intervene—yet the system still failed. On February 3, 2026, Tesla executives defended the program before a Senate committee, insisting autonomous systems are safer than human drivers despite the data.
Updated Feb 5
Provided telemetry data access to Lemonade, expanding FSD ecosystem
For a century, auto insurers priced risk based on the driver: age, driving record, location. Lemonade's January 2026 partnership with Tesla represents the first major attempt to price risk based on which entity—human or software—is actually controlling the vehicle. Tesla owners using Full Self-Driving get a 50% rate reduction on miles driven with the system engaged, a discount five times larger than Tesla's own insurance offers. The product launched in Arizona on January 26, 2026, as scheduled.
Updated Jan 31
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