Tesla shareholders will decide late on Thursday whether to award its CEO, Elon Musk, a pay package worth about $45bn in what has become a referendum on the tech mogul’s leadership and a source of fierce legal contention at his electric car company.
Musk claimed on Wednesday night in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that shareholder votes on his record-breaking payout and a plan to move the electric carmaker’s legal headquarters to Texas were “currently passing by wide margins”.
