President Donald Trump took a break from his bitter public feud with Elon Musk by offering support to Tesla in an early morning post on Truth Social.

This suit has been brewing for some time. The state DMV started investigating Tesla for possible misleading advertising in 2021 and then sent an official inquiry to the automaker roughly a year later.

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk are walking an increasingly difficult tightrope as the company navigates declining electric vehicle sales and an autonomous driving business that has yet to get off the ground.

But if you just listened in on the company’s call with analysts, you would have no idea why. For an earnings call, there was zero talk of, um, earnings. And the overall message from Tesla’s top brass seemed to be: We are a robotics and AI company, and, someday soon, it’s going to be awesome.

Tesla investors are eyeing the company's progress on robotaxi, unsupervised Full Self-Driving, affordable models, and Optimus humanoid robots.

Tesla's claims of automous driving may have convinced many buyers, but governments across the world are more sceptical of the technology.

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No slides was our first rule,” McNeil told the audience earlier this month at TC All Stage in Boston. “You have to be reviewing real product.”