Co-founder's fortune has grown by $57.2 bn this year
Chief Executive Masayoshi Son last week announced a new investment management subsidiary that would park excess cash from a massive asset sale programme in liquid stocks
"History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia," Musk tweeted on Sunday
Each stockholder of record on August 21 will receive a dividend of four additional shares of common stock for each one they own
Tesla Inc., his electric car-maker, recently celebrated its fourth straight quarter of profit and may soon join the S&P 500 Index
Their fast-growing wealth provides a breathtaking measure of their companies' economic might
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company is open to licensing software and supplying powertrains and batteries
The company reinstated its original delivery target of 500,000 units in financial year 2020 and reported its fourth consecutive profit.
It was the company's fourth-straight positive quarter, qualifying it to be included in the S&P 500 index of corporate titans
Investors are betting on Tesla's ability to scale up manufacturing just as they once backed Toyota Motor Corp, which defined the auto industry's last era
Analysts' estimates for Tesla's second quarter range from an adjusted loss as steep as $2.53 a share to a $1.41 per share profit
In an email to workers Wednesday night, the company said that since January it has had fewer than 10 cases of the virus that causes Covid-19 that were transmitted in the workplace
The chairman of Reliance Industries, whose wealth surpassed Warren Buffett's last week, is now worth $72.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Despite several attempts in the past to launch Tesla cars for the Indian roads, Elon Musk has yet to inaugurate a Tesla showroom in the country
Tesla chief's fortune rose by $6.07 billion on Friday, following a 10.8% jump in the electric carmaker's stock, according to media reports
With a market capitalization of about $250 billion, Tesla would be among the most valuable companies ever added to the S&P 500, larger than 95% of the index's existing components
Also known as autonomous or 'driverless' vehicles, they bank on sensors and software to control, navigate, and drive the vehicle
"I'm confident that we will have the basic functionality of L5 autonomous driving this year," Musk said. "There are no fundamental challenges."
The shorts are available in five sizes with a reference to three Tesla cars - Model S3, X, Y printed at the back
Musk has often taken umbrage at short-sellers and in 2018 sent a box of shorts to hedge fund owner and Tesla short-seller David Einhorn