FAQs
FAQs
Tesla’s 2025 Annual Meeting will be held on November 6, 2025 both virtually via the internet and in person for a limited number of shareholders at Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas located in Austin, Texas. We will also webcast the 2025 Annual Meeting live on the Tesla website.
Tesla expects to accommodate a limited number of shareholders in person at the 2025 Annual Meeting due to capacity restrictions.
To maximize fairness, Tesla will conduct a random drawing to determine shareholders’ eligibility to attend in person. You can enter that drawing here.
All Tesla shareholders as of the close of business on September 15, 2025 are entitled to vote at our 2025 Annual Meeting. Shareholders can VOTE NOW.
Tesla has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a definitive proxy statement and a proxy card with respect to its solicitation of proxies for the 2025 Annual Meeting.
Tesla shareholders are urged to read the proxy materials because they contain important information about Tesla and the 2025 Annual Meeting.
Shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 15, 2025 are encouraged to cast their vote NOW.
Please keep an eye on your email and mail for voting instructions, including your control number, which is required to cast your vote.
Vote now! Voting is quick and easy!
If you have any questions on how to vote, please contact our proxy solicitor, Innisfree M&A Incorporated.
Shareholders
- +1 (877) 717-3936 (U.S. and Canada) OR
- +1 (412) 232-3651 (all other countries)
Banks and Brokers
- +1 (212) 750-5833 (collect)
Voting is quick and easy! Click here to see how you can cast your vote today.
If you have any questions on how to vote, please contact our proxy solicitor, Innisfree M&A Incorporated.
Shareholders
- +1 (877) 717-3936 (U.S. and Canada) OR
- +1 (412) 232-3651 (all other countries)
Banks and Brokers
- +1 (212) 750-5833 (collect)
Shareholders need their control number to cast their vote.
Control numbers can be found on your voting materials. Click here to learn how to locate your voting materials and your control number.
For shareholders of record and most shareholders beneficially holding shares via a bank or broker, the deadline to vote via the internet or by phone is 11:59pm ET on November 5, 2025.
Please review and follow any applicable deadlines set forth on your proxy materials.
Vote now! Voting is quick and easy!
Tesla expects to accommodate a limited number of shareholders in person at the 2025 Annual Meeting due to capacity restrictions. To maximize fairness, Tesla will conduct a random drawing to determine shareholders’ eligibility to attend in person. You can enter that drawing here.
Any shareholder of record may vote at the virtual 2025 Annual Meeting here.
To join the virtual meeting, you will need a 16-digit secure “control number” unique to you. The voting materials you receive via mail or email include your individual control number. Once located, click the link for directions on how to vote your shares via your specific brokerage.
If you cannot find your control number, please click here.
All Tesla shareholders as of the close of business on September 15, 2025 are entitled to vote at our 2025 Annual Meeting.
However, the process may be different for those based outside the U.S. Please contact your broker as soon as possible to determine what you need to do to vote your shares.
The 2025 CEO Performance Award is 100% performance-based compensation for Elon. Elon doesn’t receive any compensation from the Award unless and until Tesla achieves ambitious market capitalization and operational milestones, and Elon remains in an eligible role at Tesla.
In other words, Elon only gets compensated if shareholders win – and win big. His interests are 100% aligned with yours.
The main feedback we have heard from shareholders is that they want to keep Elon retained and focused on Tesla.
The 2025 CEO Performance Award was carefully designed by the Special Committee with this in mind, but also to ensure that Elon’s interests were 100% aligned with Tesla shareholders.
With Tesla at a critical inflection point and pushing deeper into new frontiers like AI and robotics, the 2025 CEO Performance Award will not only retain Elon, but motivate him to dedicate his time, energy and considerable talents to delivering unprecedented growth.
Elon has shown that he can achieve these great heights. If he falls short of achieving all of the milestones, you as a shareholder will still benefit. If he succeeds, you will win even more.
It is essential we maintain sufficient equity compensation reserves and maximum flexibility to attract, retain and motivate talent at Tesla. The Amended & Restated 2019 Equity Incentive Plan was designed with this in mind.
It will replenish the General Share Reserve with the addition of 60 million shares. This will ensure Tesla has sufficient equity to continue granting awards over the next few years to its current and future employees, directors and service providers.
Elon will not be eligible to receive any of these 60 million shares for the General Share Reserve.
It will also create a Special Share Reserve with nearly 208 million shares and gives Board the ability to grant the remainder of the shares Elon earned under the 2018 CEO Performance Award at any time and at its discretion (regardless of the status of the Tornetta litigation).
Importantly, this is a vote to allow your Board to determine how to attract, retain and incentivize Tesla’s talented workforce – from top to bottom.
We have ambitious goals and reaching them requires the oversight of a Board that is experienced and capable of continuing to create outsized value for Tesla shareholders.
The Tesla directors up for election – including Ira Ehrenpreis, Joe Gebbia and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson – bring deep institutional knowledge, complementary skills and expertise and a commitment to shareholder value creation that will be crucial for this next stage.
Importantly, they also have a proven track record in shaping Tesla’s future and overseeing the strategy and management of the Company. They are critical to our ongoing growth and success.
The Tesla Board firmly believes strong governance and accountability to shareholders are core to Tesla’s success. We measure the results of our corporate governance by shareholder returns.
Our Board is active, always evolving and designed to keep Tesla moving fast, adapting to challenges and staying ahead of the competition, so your investment can keep growing, too.