# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001318605
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-098386
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 6510
**Document Hash:** cdf6175e2d1e0ce00f019f8c3572cf02
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-098386.hdr.sgml**: 20251009

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-098386

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: DEFA14A

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251009

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251009

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Tesla, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001318605
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** MOTOR VEHICLES & PASSENGER CAR BODIES [3711]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 912197729
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** TX
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** DEFA14A
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-34756
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251385607

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1 TESLA ROAD
- **CITY:** AUSTIN
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 78725
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 512-516-8177

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1 TESLA ROAD
- **CITY:** AUSTIN
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 78725

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** TESLA MOTORS INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20050222

**UNITED STATES<br> SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**SCHEDULE 14A**

**Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

**(Amendment No.)**

Filed by the Registrant ⌧

Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ◻

Check the appropriate box:

¨ Preliminary Proxy Statement

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| ¨ | **Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))** |

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¨ Definitive Proxy Statement

⌧ Definitive Additional Materials

¨ Soliciting Material under §240.14a-12

**Tesla, Inc.**

**(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)**

**(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)**

Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply):

x No fee required

¨ Fee paid previously with preliminary materials

¨ Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11

On October 9, 2025, Tesla, Inc. ("<u>Tesla</u>") issued the following digital advertisements and posted the following messages via Google Search advertising:

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Also on October 9, 2025, Tesla posted the following on X. A transcript of the video is below.

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Tesla stock has created a wonderful life for me and my kids.

Hi, my name is Sarah Montes. I'm a maintenance technician at Tesla in Texas.

Being a single mom, it's hard. My life before Tesla, I wasn't able to provide for my kids like I wanted to. I only had one bedroom. I had to move back in with my parents, wasn't able to put them in sports. I wasn't able to do stuff like that with them.

Now my life is completely different because of Tesla stock, and I bought this house with my stock and then my daughter was going to have a quinceañera and quinceañeras are like weddings. So, we flew out as the kids first time in Mexico. So, it was a family trip. They really enjoyed it.

My daughter looked beautiful on her day with quinceañera. It meant a lot.

I go on vacations more, sign them all up for sports. And with stock, I was able to do all that.

My kids are really happy that I work at Tesla.

To fulfill the promise for my kids, it meant the world to me. It was to give them a better life, especially for them. It's great. My kids are happy. They have their own room, they have their own space.

Tesla's changed a lot for me and my kids, and because of all this equity and all this stock, I've been able to do that.

Anything is possible here at Tesla. It really is.

On October 9, 2025, Tesla updated its website, www.VoteTesla.com. A copy of the updated materials is below.

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**Additional Information and Where to Find It**

Tesla has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "<u>SEC</u>") a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the "<u>Definitive Proxy Statement</u>") and a proxy card with respect to its solicitation of proxies for Tesla's 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "<u>2025 Annual Meeting</u>"). The Definitive Proxy Statement contains important information about the matters to be voted on at the 2025 Annual Meeting. **SHAREHOLDERS OF TESLA ARE URGED TO READ THESE MATERIALS (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT TESLA HAS FILED OR WILL FILE WITH THE SEC BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TESLA AND THE MATTERS TO BE VOTED ON AT THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING**. Shareholders are able to obtain free copies of these documents, and other documents filed with the SEC by Tesla, through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, shareholders are able to obtain free copies of these documents from Tesla by contacting Tesla's Investor Relations by e-mail at ir@tesla.com, or by going to Tesla's Investor Relations page on its website at ir.tesla.com.

**Participant Information**

Tesla, its directors (Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm, Ira Ehrenpreis, Joe Gebbia, Jack Hartung, James Murdoch, Kimbal Musk, JB Straubel and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson), and certain of its executive officers (Vaibhav Taneja and Tom Zhu) are deemed to be "participants" (as defined in Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) in the solicitation of proxies from Tesla's shareholders in connection with the matters to be considered at the 2025 Annual Meeting. Information about the compensation of our named executive officers and our non-employee directors is set forth in the sections titled "Executive Compensation for Fiscal Year 2024" and "Compensation of Directors" in the Definitive Proxy Statement commencing on pages 130 and 152, respectively, and is available [here](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001318605/000110465925090866/tm252289-12_def14a.htm). Information regarding the participants' holdings of Tesla's securities can be found in the section titled "Ownership of Securities" in the Definitive Proxy Statement commencing on page 160 and is available [here](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001318605/000110465925090866/tm252289-12_def14a.htm).