
Tesla’s board chair has sold most of her shares in the EV maker
Robyn Denholm, who’s led the board since 2018, made $168 million in the past year exercising stock options in the company, including sales worth $43 million last week.
Robyn Denholm, who’s led the board since 2018, made $168 million in the past year exercising stock options in the company, including sales worth $43 million last week.
Earnings were weaker than expected, the near-term outlook is murky, EV sales are down, and Elon Musk is more distracted than ever before. But with a phalanx of loyal shareholders and a cowed board he’s not going anywhere.
The autonomous vehicle company’s weekly ridership has jumped more than 50% in two months and more than doubled since the start of 2024.
Tesla’s CEO said he would address the company’s challenges with child labor in its supply chain. But his high-tech solution doesn’t cut it.
Ahead of a vote on his $50 billion stock award, Musk faces strident resistance from previously reliable sources who now question his commitment to the company.
Billionaire Leo Koguan, who claims to hold more than 27 million Tesla shares, said Musk is a “tyrant CEO” who has abandoned the carmaker for his other companies.
At Dimaag-AI, Ian Wright sees a big opportunity to electrify landscaping equipment as California bans the sale of new gasoline- and diesel-powered devices.
Dubious environmental benefits aside, billionaire Elon Musk’s polarising Cybertruck may be a strategic misfire given its price, big R&D costs and murky sales outlook.
Tesla’s reinterpretation of the pickup truck should arrive in November, though at low volume. And the company’s billionaire CEO declined to provide a 2024 sales target.
Form Energy, led by a former Tesla executive and backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and TPG, sees iron and rust as a low-cost solution to storing surplus energy for more than four days.