Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Okay, okay — remember last week when I suggested Tesla was being a bit extra in its bid to convince shareholders to vote in favor of relocating the company to Texas and to approve CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay deal? I was wrong, y’all. Or more accurately put, I was premature in my declaration.
Because this week Tesla took it to a whole new level by dangling the chance to win a factory tour with Elon and chief designer Franz von Holzhausen . That’s right, we’ve got a sweepstakes-for-votes scheme going on. Shareholders who vote could win a tour of the Tesla factory in Austin and an invitation to the June 13 annual meeting.
What will they offer up next? Dinner with Elon? A Cybertruck? The stakes are high and the June 13 annual shareholder meeting is approaching — two ingredients that promise to bake up some entertaining developments. Before we jump into the news, just a heads-up that I will be handing the wheel over to reporter Rebecca Bellan next week as I head off for some idle time. So many little birds came to us — and posted on social media — about a new round of layoffs at struggling EV startup Fisker .
Based on our accounting, hundreds of workers were laid off . Fisker has been in a tailspin for months and has made several rounds of layoffs. This latest cut is getting close to the bone.
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