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On the Record · Tesla

Tesla acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Tesla bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
SolarCity Corporation
Word for word“A portion of these losses were generated by our acquisition of SolarCity Corporation (“SolarCity”) and some of the other companies we acquired, and therefore are subject to change of control provisions, which limit the amount of acquired tax attributes that can be utilized in a given tax year.” 10-K for 2022
acquisition——
a business combination (not named in the filing)
Word for word“Goodwill increased $ 59 million within the automotive segment from $ 194 million as of December 31, 2022 to $ 253 million as of December 31, 2023 primarily from a business combination, net of the impact of a divestiture.” 10-K for 2023
acquisition——
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)
2016-12-31−$342.7 million
2017-12-31$115 million
2018-12-31$18 million
2019-12-31$45 million
2020-12-31$13 million
2021-12-31$0
2022-12-31$0
2023-12-31$64 million
2024-12-31$0
2025-12-31$0

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Tesla’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-01-29. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.