The message, displayed on Tesla's website for countries including Germany, France, Ireland, Belgium, and Hungary, urged prospective buyers to place their orders in June
He owns nearly 2 million shares of Tesla, worth more than $350 million, according to the company's proxy filing and the company's share price on Wednesday
Musk, who has a history of sparring with regulators, also faces government investigations into his companies that could result in more lawsuits or even criminal prosecutions
The lawsuit comes two days before a critical vote by Tesla shareholders on whether to reinstate Musk's $56 billion pay package
If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk's USD 44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO could deliver on threats to take artificial intelligence research to one of this other companies. Or he could even could walk away. If they approve the all-stock compensation package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge in January, it would almost guarantee he would remain at the company he grew to be the world leader in electric vehicles, shifting to AI and robotics including autonomous vehicles, which Musk says is Tesla's future. But even with reapproval at Thursday's annual shareholders' meeting, which many analysts say is likely, there would be uncertainty. Musk has threatened on X, his social medial platform, to develop AI elsewhere if he doesn't get a 25% stake in Tesla (He owns about 13% now). Musk's xAI recently received $6 billion in funding to develop artificial intelligence. Wedbush Analyst Dan Ives said he expects the package to be overwhelmingly reapproved, ending
Monday's ruling comes less than a month after a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Tesla must face a proposed class-action lawsuit by consumers making similar claims
The vote at next week's AGM will be the second time Musk's pay package has been put before shareholders. A judge voided an initial vote that approved the package in 2018
Donald Ball, who owns more than 28,000 Tesla shares, argues the company is violating its corporate charter
Musk suggested in one of his posts Tuesday that Nvidia wouldn't be able to track all the money Tesla is spending on AI this year, writing that about half of its expenditures will be internal
The company's shares are down nearly 30 per cent this year and have fallen by more than 50 per cent since their 2021 high
The regulator said the vehicles failed to comply with the federal safety requirements as their seat belt warning light and audible chime may not get activated when the driver is unbelted
The opposition comes days after another prominent proxy adviser, Glass Lewis & Co., recommended investors vote down the Musk remuneration plan
The EV maker's board has been working to rally shareholder support ahead of its June 13 annual meeting
Musk criticized Frost's remarks, saying in a post on his social media platform X that the pension fund 'is breaking their word'
The company's shareholders vote next month to ratify the pay package that McCormick voided and to reincorporate Tesla in Texas
The company is making an unusual and public effort to rally support for Musk's pay
Tesla maintains there was nothing wrong with the car. It said the data event recorder showed that Speckman kept her foot on the accelerator pedal before the crash
The recommendation to large institutional investors may sway their vote over Musk's pay at the carmaker's June 13 annual meeting
Slowing growth in EV demand and tough competition have hit demand for Tesla's vehicles
Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The USD 200 million plant in Shanghai's Lingang pilot free trade zone will be the first Tesla battery plant outside the United States. Tesla opened an EV plant in Shanghai in 2019 that assembles cars for China, Europe and other overseas markets. It is the No. 2 seller in the booming Chinese market for electric vehicles. The market leader is Chinese auto company BYD. The state-run Xinhua News Agency lauded Tesla's commitment to investing in China and defying the rhetoric of decoupling' and de-risking' from China. It said the factory was slated to start mass production in early 2025, with an initial capacity of 10,000 Megapack units a year. According to Tesla's website, each Megapack can store more than 3.9 megawatt hours of energy enough to power an average of 3,600 homes for one hour. They are designed mainly for utilit