One investment firm recently raised its outlook for the automaker’s stock, despite skepticism about the company’s EV business.

With his whopping pay package still tied up in legal limbo, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk could begin to push for the controlling stake he once said he wanted in the electric-vehicle maker.

The world's richest man, billionaire and now close advisor to Donald Trump, has again been denied by a judge a $51 billion payment in shares of Tesla, whose value has almost doubled to over $100 billion.