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Tesla sales hit record as US buyers rush to beat end of tax credits

Q3 deliveries increased for first time in three quarters


Tesla’s global deliveries rose 7 per cent in the third quarter, hitting a new record thanks to a rebound in US sales ahead of the expiry of electric vehicle tax credits in September.

The carmaker delivered 497,099 vehicles in the three months to the end of September, up from 462,890 in the same period last year. That was well above analyst forecasts of 444,000, according to Visible Alpha.

Chief executive Elon Musk has previously warned of difficult quarters ahead for the company because of President Donald Trump’s anti-EV policies, including the tax credit cancellation and the rollback of rules cutting vehicle emissions.

But consumers rushed to buy electric cars ahead of the expiry of the tax credits on September 30, creating a temporary boom that boosted Ford’s EV sales during the third quarter by 30 per cent and doubled General Motors’ EV sales to a quarterly record of 66,501.

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Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives described the result as “a great bounceback quarter”, but added: “There is still work to do to gain further ground from a delivery perspective.”

As Tesla’s automotive revenues have fallen, Musk has tried to convince investors that the company’s future lies in its self-driving “robotaxi” service, which launched in the US this year.

Tesla’s board has proposed a pay package that would give Musk 12 per cent of the company’s shares if, over the next decade, he can lift its valuation eightfold to $8.5tn, increase its earnings 24 times and sell millions more cars.

O CEO da Tesla já detém cerca de 18% do capital da empresa, depois de ter adquirido cerca de 2,5 milhões de ações na sexta-feira.

Caso seja aprovada, a compensação vai ser atribuída de forma parcial e está dependente de uma série de objetivos. A Tesla quer agarrar Musk pelos próximos dez anos e elevar a capitalização de mercado para 8,5 biliões de dólares.

Tesla To Integrate Deepseek, Doubao AI Voice Controls in China

Tesla Inc. plans to introduce in-car voice assistant functions powered by Deepseek and Bytedance Ltd.’s Doubao artificial intelligence as it aims to catch local rivals who offer similar features.

The technology allows drivers to use voice commands to control navigation apps, in-car entertainment and cabin temperature, as well as receive news updates, according to a terms and service document uploaded to Tesla’s official website.

Voice commands will be mostly processed by Doubao, while Deepseek chat will be responsible for AI interaction, the document showed. Both these models are hosted by Bytedance’s Volcano Engine cloud service, it said.

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A fabricante liderada por Elon Musk continua a sofrer sucessivos revezes na Europa, com quedas acentuadas nas vendas em países como a Alemanha, Reino Unido, Suécia e França. O único farol para a Tesla é a Noruega, onde cresceu mais de 80% em julho.

Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $200m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash

A Florida jury ordered Tesla to pay more than $200m to victims of a deadly crash involving its Autopilot driver assist technology.

Friday’s verdict is a hit for Elon Musk’s car company, as it opens the door to other costly lawsuits and could potentially strike a blow to Tesla’s reputation for safety at a critical time for the company.

The jury found that Tesla was 33% responsible for the crash that led to the death of 22-year-old Benavides Leon and injured her boyfriend, Angulo. The rest of the blame was placed on the driver, George Brian McGee.

The jury ordered $129m in compensatory damages, of which Tesla will have to pay 33%, and $200m in punitive damages, to the estate of Benavides Leon and to Angulo.

Tesla said it would appeal the verdict. “Today’s verdict is wrong and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla’s and the entire industry’s efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology,” the company said in a statement.

In its statement, Tesla said it was only responsible for 33% of the compensatory damages (so approximately $42.5m), and any punitive damages would be capped at three times that amount, at most.

“To be clear, no car in 2019, and none today, would have prevented this crash,” the company said.

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Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to Elon Musk

Billionaire chief executive threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he was not given more stock

Tesla’s board has approved the award of 96mn shares worth about $30bn to Elon Musk as part of a new pay deal after the billionaire chief executive threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he was not given more stock.

In a filing on Monday, Tesla said the decision was approved by a special committee formed by the board comprising just the chair, Robyn Denholm, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson.

Following lacklustre results last month, Musk renewed his threat to leave Tesla if he is not given more shares, after a Delaware judge struck down a pay package that would have been the largest in US history.

If reinstated on appeal by Delaware’s Supreme Court, the package would increase Musk’s ownership of Tesla from just under 13 per cent to more than 20 per cent.

“Retaining Elon is more important than ever before,” the company said in a letter to shareholder on Monday.

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