Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the company’s annual shareholder meeting scheduled for July 7, 2020, will be postponed. Musk cited the public gathering restrictions in place in California due to COVID-19 as the reason for the delay.
As reported here and here, there was a lot of information presented at the 2019 Tesla annual shareholder meeting. And although there were a lot of small details covered and hints given about the future, there wasn’t any earth-shattering news. In my summary, I noted they didn’t “let the cat out of the bag.” But I didn’t really know what the cat was, so I didn’t comment.
Tesla is pushing to level up its Mobile Service offerings yet again, according to CEO Elon Musk at the company’s annual shareholder meeting last night. Musk said that the company is working to add even more capability to its mobile repair fleet, including the ability to change out bumpers.
Who’s diverting your attention away from this remarkable American success story? There are some alligators lurking in the FUD. Even Elon acknowledged, “It’s the most crazy disinformation campaign I’ve ever seen.”
This afternoon at 2:30pm Pacific Standard Time, Tesla will hold its annual shareholder meeting. Expect to hear updates from company leadership, including Elon Musk, on the latest and greatest public-facing data about the company. They typically provide a business update, a look at the financials for the past year, as well as provide a look into the future at what shareholders can expect from the company in the year ahead.
One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the 2018 Tesla Shareholder Meeting was updated information about Tesla’s current battery costs and projected reductions over the next 2 years.
Tesla dropped a number of info bombs in its shareholder meeting this week. We’ve summarized 28 of them in two separate articles. Beyond the headlines about production numbers and finances, Tesla announced a few major new developments, including some insights into its work on battery recycling.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel regularly talk about how they are constantly on the lookout for the next big thing in energy storage. To date, the 2170 cells that go into Tesla’s current energy storage products and the Model 3 appear to be the best of breed. That’s a conditional statement that necessarily balances availability of raw materials, battery cost, energy density, power density, and a number of other factors, but it is clear that Tesla is the world’s leader in lithium-ion battery production for electric cars in a number of measurable ways.
Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting on June 6th, 2017, at 2:30pm California time. The meeting included a summary of progress to date as well as a look into the future for the company. The major milestone for the last year and what Tesla kicked the meeting off with was that, with the acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla became the world’s first vertically integrated sustainable energy company.
At the 2017 Annual Shareholder Meeting on June 6th, Tesla CEO Elon Musk provided updates on just about every area of the business, which necessarily included the Tesla Model 3. The milestone vehicle will move into production next month. Shortly thereafter, the first customers will receive their Model 3s. The official unveiling will be followed at the end of July with the launch of the Model 3 configurator, which will allow customers to customize their order.
“The Model 3 configurator will go live at the end of next month when we deliver the first production Model 3,” Elon stated.
