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Tesla
Tesla is the electric vehicle, energy, AI, robotics, and autonomy company where Musk serves as the central product and strategy figure.
Tesla is more than cars on Muskularity: it is the public doorway into manufacturing scale, energy, autonomy, robotaxi narratives, and Optimus.
Breaking
On October 15, 2026, Tesla demonstrated a next-generation Roadster with SpaceX hardware: upside-down driving, a midair flip, and a thruster landing. The source-labeled explainer separates that demo from the 2028 production claim, the speed and range figures outlets do not agree on, the deposit schedule, and the Tesla–SpaceX merger talk.
Label: demo reported by Reuters and others. Production in 2028 is a company claim. A retail price was not disclosed at the event.
The joint hardware started a fresh round of Tesla–SpaceX combination talk. What is confirmed, and what is still a bank note, is a separate page. No deal has been announced. On October 19, 2026, Tesla filed the definitive proxy for a December 3 annual meeting. The ballot is three proposals. A combination is not one of them. That filing does not rule out a later special meeting or a supplement.
What Mr. Musk has said about the car since that night, including the autonomous-tricks reply and the fighter-jet sentence, is the Roadster claims log. Yann LeCun’s October 17–18 estimates of the cold-gas burn, and Mr. Musk’s reply, are on the cold-gas page. Whether the flying trim is legal is a separate page: a governor’s pledge is not a Florida law. On October 18 he also said Tesla will add a large font option to the UI. That reply is on FSD (Supervised). The October 2 production and delivery counts, and the October 21 results date, are on Tesla’s Q3 2026: what is already on the record. The financial results are not out. The Cybertruck, kept apart from the “other models” line, is the 2019 sheet, the 2023 order page, and the recall populations. The Semi’s 2017 prices, the PepsiCo pilot, and the 2026 status words are a different truck. Storage deployments and the factory rows are Megapack. The November 11, 2022 connector post, Ford’s May 25, 2023 release, and GM’s June 8, 2023 release are NACS. The heading on Tesla’s post says “system.” Ford and GM say “standard.” The September 22, 2020 deck, and what later updates say about the 4680 cell, are Battery Day. Shanghai’s construction date, the January 2020 delivery release, and the export sentences are Gigafactory Shanghai.
The Q4 2025 capacity table still lists Model S and Model X at 100,000, status Production. The Q2 2026 update says those lines were decommissioned. The product pages, fetched October 21, say each model is no longer in production, and that pre-owned inventory may still be available. That record is the Model S and Model X page. CNBC’s “honorable discharge” is an account of the January 28 call, not a line in the Q4 update. The computers the letters call AI3, AI4, AI5, and AI6, which the support page does not name that way, are a separate page.
The August 7, 2018 “funding secured” tweet, the SEC settlement, and the 2023 jury verdict are the SEC record. The 2018 CEO pay award, the Delaware rescission, and the December 19, 2025 reinstatement are Tornetta.
Overview
Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles and energy products, and publicly positions AI/robotics (FSD, robotaxi concepts, Optimus) as core future value. Separate vehicle production facts from autonomy claims and humanoid robot targets.
Musk role
CEO and central product/strategy figure. Compensation and control fights belong in governance/filings lanes with primary sources.
Core products
- Vehicles (model lineup as marketed on tesla.com — date changes)
- Energy storage / solar (company product pages)
- Full Self-Driving / autonomy software claims
- Robotaxi / Cybercab / Robovan concepts (We, Robot event language)
- Optimus humanoid (AI page)
Claim rules
| Claim type | Handling |
|---|---|
| Deliveries / production | Prefer IR releases by quarter |
| FSD capability | Software version + date + what is supervised vs unsupervised |
| Robotaxi timeline | Prediction / target unless commercial service evidence |
| Optimus unit counts | Target ≠ built ≠ deployed useful work |
Key sources
Related
- Next-generation Roadster reveal
- Roadster claims log, since the reveal
- LeCun and the cold-gas thrusters
- Is the flying Roadster legal?
- “Funding secured” and the SEC consent decree
- Tornetta and the 2018 pay package
- The June 13, 2024 move from Delaware to Texas
- Q3 2026: what is already on the record
- Cybertruck: the 2019 sheet, what shipped, and the recalls
- Semi: pilot trucks and the 2026 status word
- Battery Day and the 4680 cell
- Gigafactory Shanghai
- Megapack and storage deployments
- Tesla–SpaceX merger talk
- The 2026 proxy and the December 3 ballot
- Optimus
- FSD (Supervised)
- Robotaxi
- Robots hub
- SolarCity (historical)
- The SolarCity stockholder case
- Videos
- AI Wars
- Capital allocation
- Manufacturing