Musk recalls an anecdote about his brother giving him the wrong time to catch the school bus, to ensure he catches the bus, as a way to illustrate his trouble with deadlines. He has consistently promised self-driving cars, but has yet to deliver. But this time is different, he claims. “I deliver in the end. That’s important.”
“It will be like an Airbnb thing. You can add or subtract your car to the fleet whenever you want. So you can say, like, I’m going away for a week at just one tap on your Tesla app, your car gets added to the fleet and it just makes money for you while you’re gone.”
The company has previously teased this capability in the Tesla app.
I get the feeling we’re going to get a lot of statements like this. He starts out talking about energy storage, sustainability, and then shifts to autonomy. He repeats his claim that most people don’t understand what Tesla is working on. And he adds a dig at people who live in New York who don’t drive cars. As a transit rider, I’ll try to keep my opinions to myself.
He jumps in the air with both arms raised. He is clearly in a good mood. “I just want to start off by saying, hot damn, I love you guys.”
Tesla is moving to Texas. Kimbal Musk and James Murdoch have been reappointed to the board. And, of course, Elon Musk has won re-approval for his massive $50 billion pay package.
Both proposals are opposed by the board and are unlikely to be adopted. But I’ll say it again, the annual shareholder meeting is one of the few Tesla events where outside, competing voices pierce the bubble.
This is a timely one, considering all the allegations that have been leveled at Tesla over the years regarding racism, gender discrimination, retaliation, and harassment. It won’t succeed, but its still striking to hear it all detailed by a shareholder at an extremely Musk-friendly event.
The Tesla CEO appears heading to victory in today’s shareholder vote over his enormous pay package. Musk posted two graphs on X last night which showed both proposals — the one of his compensation, and the other on reincorporating Tesla in Texas — ahead by wide margins. But the results aren’t final yet, and things could still go pear-shaped. After all, this is Tesla we’re talking about. Tune in at 3:30 pm CT if you want to watch Musk dive into a pile of cash, Scrooge McDuck-style.
Porsche EV and PHEV owners can soon use the My Porsche app to pay and charge at ChargePoint stations in North America. Unfortunately, it’s not a plug and charge system, but soon the Porsche Charging Service will include “more than 100,000” stations when the collaboration goes live in Q4 2024 — after the launch of the new 2025 Porsche Taycan and Macan Electric SUV.
The Verge alum Sean O’Kane crunched the LinkedIn data to conclude that Ford’s secretive EV skunkworks has grown to over 300 employees, with 50 coming from Rivian alone. Ford has also poached workers from Tesla, Lucid, Canoo, F1, and Apple’s recently disbanded car project. The group, led ex-Tesla engineer Alan Clarke, is tasked with designing a lineup of low-cost EVs for the Blue Oval.
