Tesla Shares Jump
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The Department of Motor Vehicles gives Elon Musk’s EV company 60 days to change how it promotes Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features or face a 30-day sales ban.
Ross Gerber, a longtime Tesla investor and founder of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management, has become a Tesla bear. He’s betting Tesla won’t catch up to Waymo in the self-driving car race, citing the company’s failure to implement new technology along with its soiled reputation as reasons it is falling behind.
Shares saw their first record close since December 2024, helping support the continued reign of the “Magnificent Seven.”
TSLA shares dropped 73.6% from a peak of $409.97 on November 4, 2021, to $108.10 on January 3, 2023, in contrast to a peak-to-trough drop of 25.4% for the S&P 500. Sine then, the stock surged to a high of $479.86 on December 17, 2024, and is currently trading at $475.31
Musk often brags about how his products are either changing the world now, or will do so in the future. One of his favorite recent topics is Tesla Robotaxi. Tesla has teased its Robotaxi program since Musk first mentioned it in 2016. As recently as last year, Musk claimed there would be 1 million of them on the road by 2025.
Robotaxis and humanoid robots may grab the spotlight, but Tesla's EV business is still holding up the entire production.