Two decades ago, when Tesla was a scrappy Silicon Valley startup, California's pollution rules let it earn free money selling emissions credits to automakers hawking big gas hogs. Its wealthy, environmentally minded consumers became the backbone of its electric car business.
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CEO Elon Musk promises to show off his newest robot later this year. But that's not stopping competitors like Boston Dynamics and Unitree.
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) fell around 2% early Monday as investors reacted negatively to the company's surprise decision to raise prices on some of its top-selling vehicles. The stock dropped to roughly $410.50 after already sliding 4.75% on Friday, extending a pullback that interrupted Tesla's recent rally tied to optimism around autonomous driving and China expansion.
Elon Musk said on Monday that fully self-driving vehicles operating without human safety monitors are expected to become more common across the United States later this year, following their introduction in Texas. Speaking via video link at the Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, Musk said self-driving cars were already operating in Texas without safety monitors and that the service would expand nationwide this year.
Ben Gawiser, an Oracle executive, sued Tesla after waiting years for fully autonomous driving. Gawiser is one of many Tesla owners whose vehicles are too old to support unsupervised full self-driving.
Tesla raised the prices of its Model Y cars in the United States on Saturday, according to its website.
Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
TSLA's robotaxi rollout faces delays, ride issues and rising Waymo competition as investors question whether Tesla can deliver on its AI ambitions.
On a recent episode of the Rich Habits Podcast titled “169: Our Favorite Passive Income Strategy (2026),” co-host Austin Hankwitz called covered calls “one of the simplest options strategies in investing” and “the freest money that exists.
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) dropped roughly 4% on Friday after high expectations surrounding US-China talks failed to deliver a major breakthrough for the company's autonomous driving ambitions. The stock fell to around $428.72 in early trading, interrupting a strong recent run that had seen Tesla rise for three consecutive weeks.
A judge hearing an Australian class action lawsuit against Tesla on Friday questioned whether the Elon Musk-led automaker was taking the discovery process seriously and warned it could expect "a really bad time" if it failed to cooperate.