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As of September 4, 2026, Tesla had a market capitalization of $1.40T (companiesmarketcap.com). Its most recent revenue figure is $94.8B, reported by SEC EDGAR (10-K), December 2025.
Tesla designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, energy generation and storage systems, and is expanding into autonomous driving and robotaxi services.
Tesla Motors was incorporated in Delaware in 2003 and introduced its first vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, in early 2008.[1] Before going public it financed itself mainly with convertible preferred stock and convertible notes, which brought in $296.8 million of net proceeds through 2009.[1] In January 2010 Tesla took a $465.0 million loan under the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program.[1] After SpaceX completed its merger with xAI, Tesla's right to the xAI preferred stock converted into a right to SpaceX Class A common stock.[2] Tesla's first-quarter 2026 update recorded $2.0 billion paid for the SpaceX equity investment.[3],[4] Tesla also says it is partnering with SpaceX to build a chip fab that integrates logic, memory and advanced packaging.[3]
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Tesla is an automotive company, based in Austin, Texas, USA, founded 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Elon Musk, JB Straubel, Ian Wright.
In its May 2007 Series D, Tesla sold 18,440,449 preferred shares at $2.4403 each.[1] In May 2009 Daimler affiliate Blackstar Investco bought 19,901,290 Series E shares at $2.5124 each.[1] Its June 2010 IPO offered 13,300,000 shares at $17.00, of which Tesla sold 11,880,600.[1] Toyota bought $50.0 million of stock at the IPO price in a concurrent private placement.[1] Together the offering and the placement were expected to raise about $234.3 million in net proceeds.[1] Tesla has no stand-alone venture fund, but in January 2026 it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI through Series E preferred stock, according to the SpaceX S-1 as reported by Yahoo Finance.[2]
Elon Musk lost about $113 billion over two days as Tesla and SpaceX shares fell following the U.S. midterms, with the two companies' combined market cap down roughly $456 billion from election night.
A proposed all-stock SpaceX-Tesla merger would expand SpaceX's share count from about 13.1 billion to roughly 25 billion, cutting existing holders' stake to roughly half what they hold today, Fortune's analysis found.
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX's boards have formed special committees to weigh a merger that would combine the companies at roughly $3.5 trillion, though no deal terms exist yet.
Tesla finally staged its delayed Roadster demo outside Waco, Texas, showing a car with 10 SpaceX-style cold-gas thrusters that drove up a vertical ramp, hovered over other vehicles, and hit 60 mph in under one second.
California's new SB 1246 forces Waymo, Tesla and Zoox to provide local incident response when robotaxis block traffic or emergency responders, starting July 2028.
Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot is hitting hardware snags in its hands and supplier chain as the company tries to scale up production, new reporting shows.
Tesla confirmed the next-generation Roadster will finally be revealed October 1 in Waco, Texas, with a SpaceX-built cold-gas thruster package Elon Musk says can push it to 60 mph in 1.1 seconds.
Uber put $100 million into Atoms and builds nothing itself, while Atoms, Waymo and Tesla carry the full capital and safety burden of running actual fleets -- that asymmetry is the whole argument.
Atoms raised $1.7 billion to build robotaxis and brought back an engineer convicted of stealing self-driving trade secrets and later pardoned, the same week Tesla's Cybercab drew an NHTSA probe within hours.
Tesla began carrying paying riders in its wheel-free Cybercab days after a federal safety audit opened, Elon Musk skipped the launch, and rivals Waymo and Zoox used the same week to expand their own robotaxi footprints.
Tesla registered 45 Cybercabs with Texas's automated-vehicle tracker and began service in Austin without steering wheels or pedals; federal regulators opened an investigation within hours.
NHTSA opened an investigation into whether roughly 1,000 Cybercabs -- built with no steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors -- were properly certified, mere hours after Tesla began commercial rides in Austin.
In the third quarter of 2026 Tesla's total revenue was roughly flat year over year at $28.0 billion.[5],[4]
Tesla's June 2010 IPO offered 13,300,000 shares at $17.00, of which Tesla sold 11,880,600.[1]
Tesla's market capitalization was $1.40T as of September 4, 2026, according to companiesmarketcap.com.
Tesla's most recent revenue figure is $94.8B, reported by SEC EDGAR (10-K), December 2025.
Tesla was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, according to Wikipedia.
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