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Tesla Shareholder meeting and Battery Day may converge, Elon Musk updates on timing
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the date for the upcoming Shareholder Meeting will be postponed from July 7, with a new date to be likely announced after the week of July 4th. Musk also hinted at a joint meeting that would combine the highly-anticipated Battery Day event with the Tesla Shareholder Meeting.
When asked about a possible appearance by the Tesla Cybertruck at the upcoming meeting, Musk confirmed. “Yes, but we will have to postpone annual shareholder meeting, as still no large gatherings allowed by July 7th. Not sure of new date, but am guessing maybe a month or so later.”
Currently, large gatherings are still forbidden in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the original date of July 7 for the Tesla Shareholder meeting right around the corner, it will inevitably need to push back to conform to safety regulations. Plans for Tesla’s Battery Day event, which was initially scheduled for mid-May and to take place from its solar factory in New York, will also be updated.
Musk hinted at the idea of combining both the Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day into one event, stating that it might be advantageous considering the two company gatherings “are converging in time.” Musk said he was hopeful a date could be announced after the July 4th week.
Probably good to combine them, since they are converging in time. I’m hopeful we can announce a date after the July 4th week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 20, 2020
Battery Day is the company’s opportunity to reveal significant battery cell advancements being made for its fleet of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions. Similar to the company’s Autonomy Day last year, which highlighted Tesla’s approach to its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving initiatives, Battery Day was an opportunity to show the world what the company is doing behind the scenes to improve its battery technology and bring price parity of electric cars to combustion vehicles.
The event is planned to be held at Tesla’s Giga New York Facility. However, if Battery Day and the Shareholder Meeting are combined, it is likely to take place in Fremont, Musk said.
Probably Fremont
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 20, 2020
During the Q1 2020 Earnings Call, Musk stated that he wanted to save the exciting news for the Battery Day event, and not preempt the developments that the company has made in its tech.
Tesla’s Battery Day is rumored to reveal the culmination of advancements in the company’s cell chemistry, including an update on its widely-popular “Million Mile Battery.” Tesla also is beginning to hint toward significant strides in price parity with gas-powered cars after Musk stated that the Semi would enter “volume production” soon.
Musk stated that Battery Day would be “one of the most exciting days in Tesla’s history, and we’re just trying to figure out the right timing.” Tesla enthusiasts everywhere are anxious to know what the company has up its sleeve for the Battery Day event, but it must be held at a time where guest safety is a primary concern.
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Tesla crushes Wall Street expectations, beats delivery estimates by over 15 percent
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) beat Wall Street expectations of 406,000 vehicles delivered in Q2 by reporting 480,126 deliveries for the three months ending in June.
Tesla reported it delivered 467,762 Model 3 and Model Y units, while 12,364 Model S, Model X, and Cybertrucks switched hands during the quarter. The Model S and Model X were officially sunset this past quarter and will no longer be part of the company’s Production & Delivery reports moving forward.
🚨 BREAKING: Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, ANNIHILATING Wall Street expectations of 406,000. Production was reported at 451,758.
Deliveries:
Model 3/Y: 467,762
Other Models: 12,364Production:
Model 3/Y: 442,936
Other Models: 8,822 https://t.co/TTHwQAsKt8 pic.twitter.com/7qI4Zj6FE5— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) July 2, 2026
The quarter is a pleasant surprise and a good rebound from Q1, when Tesla slightly missed the Wall Street consensus of 365,645 cars by reporting 358,023 deliveries for the first three motnhs of the year.
Energy storage deployments also provided some strength in Tesla’s delivery report, hitting 13.5 GWh for Q2. This is a particular division of Tesla’s business that has been overwhelmingly robust over the past few years, truly being a strong point of the company’s overall model.
For the year, Tesla analysts still predict deliveries to trend in the 1.69 million unit region, a modest 3 to 5 percent increase from the 1.64 million cars the company delivered last year. Tesla will likely return to more sequential and noticeable year-over-year growth as the Cybercab project starts to ramp up considerably in the next few years.
Tesla has some other potential catalysts to spur vehicle deliveries, too. Not only is it expecting Cybercab to truly start making a change in the next few years, but other vehicles could be entering the company’s lineup.
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The slightly longer Model Y L has been a highly speculated release candidate in the U.S. It has already done incredibly well in China, and U.S. buyers have been wanting slightly more interior space than the Model Y. Now that the Model X is gone, it is more needed than ever.
Q2 highlights a pretty stable automotive division within Tesla, and no true concerns arise from these figures, especially considering it managed to beat expectations convincingly.
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Tesla gets its latest short from Michael Burry: ‘Happy it jumped back to this level’
Tesla short seller Michael Burry, the subject of the film “The Big Short,” where he was portrayed by Steve Carell, has revealed he has opened a new bet against the stock.
In a new update to his Substack newsletter in a post titled “Trading Post June 30, 2026,” Burry revealed a new set of bets against Tesla, Caterpillar, NVIDIA, Applied Materials Inc., and the iShares Semiconductor ETF.
In regard to Tesla, Burry wrote:
“And finally I shorted Tesla at 416.22. Happy it jumped back to this level.”
This means Burry likely opened his new short position after the company’s recent rally on Wall Street, which saw Tesla shares sink in mid-May, only to recover to well over the $400 mark. Currently, shares trade at around $427.
The company saw a big Tuesday as shares climbed considerably, over 10 percent. The size of the Tesla short was not provided, nor did Burry give any information on the position’s structure, the number of shares, dollar value, or whether options were used in the short.
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Over the years, Burry has been one of the more vocal critics of Tesla, calling its share price “media inflated,” and saying it was “ridiculously overvalued” as recently as December.
The company has largely transitioned away from being known as an automotive company and instead is much more widely regarded as an AI play, mostly due to its Full Self-Driving efforts, Optimus robot development, and data collection related to both.
This has not pulled those skeptics away from being vocal about their distaste for how Tesla is valued, but there’s no denying that the company is a global force in many things, including sustainable energy, automotive, and AI.
Wedbush Securities is initiating stock coverage on SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX), marking the first comments on the company since it went public several weeks ago. Wedbush and its analyst handling coverage, Dan Ives, are widely bullish on fellow Musk company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA).
Ives wrote his first note initiating coverage of SpaceX shares on Wednesday with a $190 price target and an ‘Outperform’ rating. The firm believes the company is well positioned off of its IPO because of its wide array of projects, including AI compute power and infrastructure, connectivity projects, and launches.
“We view SpaceX as one of the most differentiated assets within the tech market with a strong footprint across its three core markets, with Starlink driving success with connectivity,” Ives wrote, “Starship launches leading to a demand flywheel and increasing deal flow for its Colossus clusters.”
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Wedbush leans heavily on Starlink, which they say is the “profitability driver given the strength of its recurring revenue base of ~12 million subscribers as of June 5th.” Ives believes Starlink is still in the “early innings” of penetrating the global telecommunications and broadband market, as it only holds less than a 1 percent share. However, this number is sure to increase over time.
It also highlights the importance of Starship, which it says is an “essential layer” of SpaceX’s overall success. SpaceX developing and displaying the ability to reuse rockets is a major cost and reliability advantage “as it reduces the necessary hardware launch costs while generating a feedback loop for future flights to improve their launch flight rate without accelerating capex spend.”
Finally, SpaceX’s recent AI/Compute projects are also very elementary, Ives writes. It is worth mentioning Wedbush said its $190 price target is derived from a valuation forecast that sees the company yielding roughly $2.48 trillion of implied enterprise value.
There are also some factors that Wedbush did not take into account with its initial coverage. The firm wrote in the note:
“We note that there is optional value coming from Starship’s accelerating scale towards sub-$200/kg unit economics, orbital data centers, and enterprise AI monetization as these factors could drive meaningful upside but these face major hurdles, so we do not take that into account with our valuation.”
SpaceX shares are down just over 2 percent today, trading at around $167 at the time of publication.
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