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Elon Musk is a South African-born businessman and the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [418] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [419] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX. [420]
SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive, [2] based on a suggestion for a solar company concept by their cousin, Elon Musk, who was the chairman and helped start the company. [3] By 2009, solar panels it had installed were capable of generating 440 megawatts (MW) of power. [4] [5] In 2011, the company launched their ...
The company's current power generation products include solar panels (manufactured by other companies for Tesla), the Tesla Solar Roof (a solar shingle system), and the Tesla Solar Inverter. The company also makes a large-scale energy storage system called the Megapack. Additionally, Tesla develops software to support its energy products.
A joint agreement between Musk and the SEC eventually clarified the previous agreement details, [113] including a list of topics about which Musk needed preclearance. [114] In 2020, a judge blocked a lawsuit that claimed a tweet by Musk regarding Tesla stock price ("too high imo") violated the agreement.
Tesla, Inc. (/ ˈ t ɛ s l ə / ⓘ TESS-lə or / ˈ t ɛ z l ə / TEZ-lə [a]) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services.
In June 2024, Tesla shareholders accused Elon Musk and the company’s board of knowingly diverting talent and resources away from the company and directing it toward Musk’s rival artificial intelligence company, xAI, thereby breaching their fiduciary duty to Tesla. [51] [52] More than a dozen Tesla employees left to work for xAI. Musk has ...
According to the Wall Street Journal, in September 2018, the company's stock fell to its lowest price in a year, around the time that CEO Elon Musk smoked marijuana during a live TV interview. [177] As of December 31, 2019, Musk owns 38,658,670 Tesla shares or 20.8% of the company. [178]
The Musk family is a prominent family with roots in South Africa, Canada, England, and the United States, whose most famous member is billionaire Elon Musk.It also includes his parents Maye Musk, a model and author, and Errol Musk, a mine-owner, businessman and politician; siblings Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and cousin Lyndon Rive.