Musk's reinstated 2018 award and his new package worth up to $878 billion now dwarf Tesla's lifetime profits, and Q2's $398 million operating income sharpens the question of whether any CEO is worth this structure.
Musk's reinstated 2018 award and his new package worth up to $878 billion now dwarf Tesla's lifetime profits, and Q2's $398 million operating income sharpens the question of whether any CEO is worth this structure.
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Tesla registered 12,173 new cars in the United Kingdom in June, the brand’s best June on record there and a 58% jump over the 7,719 it managed a year earlier, according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) data published Monday, July 6, 2026. That volume handed Tesla 5.7% of the entire British new…
Tesla turned a record 480,126-delivery quarter into just a 1.4% operating margin and its first negative free cash flow in more than two years, showing how expensive the company's incentive-fueled volume push and AI buildout have become.
Earnings Tesla is now offering 3.99% APR financing on the new Model Y Performance for up to 72 months, extending subsidized financing to the only Model Y trim it had kept at full-price borrowing costs.
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Tesla's German factory operated at 54% capacity in 2025 and built fewer vehicles, yet its net profit rose 36% to EUR 77.1 million, according to the annual report of Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg SE.
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A drone flyover of Gigafactory Texas on July 18, 2026 captured 245 Tesla Cybercab units staged across Austin factory lots, more than double the 102 cars observers counted five weeks earlier.
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