Vaibhav Taneja
Chief financial officer, Tesla
Vaibhav Taneja is a chief financial officer at Tesla. Their most recent Section 16 filing is from September 2026.
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Hardware
Tesla Must Build 1,000 Robots a Week, and the Hands Keep Failing
Tesla lifted 2026 capex past $25 billion while keeping 1.4 cents of every sales dollar last quarter. The robot meant to justify that spend is ramping tenfold, but its hands are still assembled by hand, and rivals just raised billions on the same thesis.
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Silicon
Tesla clears its delivery bar by 25,000 cars, and the cash test moves to October 21
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, above every Wall Street count and 2% below last year's record. The free-cash-flow print on 21 October decides whether the $43.5 billion cash cushion is a buffer or a countdown.
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Deals
Tesla signs $30 billion of bank credit the day before its sworn robotaxi answer
Citibank and Wells Fargo committed $30 billion of unsecured credit to Tesla on 29 September, six times the revolver it replaced, the day before the company owes federal regulators a sworn answer on its driverless Cybercab. The largest tranche has 18 months to live.
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