The people who make Tesla, Tesla.

Thank you for turning an early-2000s bet that electric cars could be desirable into a company that reshaped the entire auto industry.

Thank you for carrying the quiet, exacting discipline of the numbers so that a company famous for its ambition stays honest and solvent.

Thank you for proving that a factory could go from empty field to mass production at record speed, and for the operational rigor that keeps Tesla's cars flowing worldwide.

Thank you for the engineering craft under the sheet metal, joining Tesla in 2010 and helping engineer every model that followed.

Thank you for giving electric cars a face people fell in love with, and for insisting that the future could also be beautiful.

Thank you for answering that 2013 call to build real self-driving, and for shepherding Tesla Vision and the end-to-end neural networks of FSD v12.

Thank you for scaling Megapack from idea to grid-scale reality, helping the stationary-storage business become one of Tesla's brightest lines.

Thank you for the steady, independent hand at the top of the boardroom, bringing decades of finance and operations judgment to Tesla's governance.

Thank you for architecting Tesla's battery and powertrain foundations as its fifth employee, and for now closing the loop by recycling those same batteries at Redwood.

Thank you for daring to start it all in 2003, believing a battery-electric sports car could break the tradeoff between performance and efficiency.

Thank you for co-founding Tesla and helping bootstrap the earliest engineering that turned a bold idea into a driveable car.

Thank you for eighteen years leading the batteries, motors, and energy products at the heart of Tesla, from the Roadster era through the 4680 cell.

Thank you for five years shaping Tesla's vision-first Autopilot, and for teaching the world so generously about neural networks along the way.

Thank you for the custom silicon work behind Tesla's self-driving computer and the Dojo training effort, bringing chip-design mastery to the AI push.

Thank you for a lifetime of rigorous battery science and for the Dalhousie partnership pushing cell cost, density, and lifetime toward the million-mile battery.

He took the Model S from program launch to the road and spent a decade helping Tesla learn to build cars at scale.

He led the engineering that made the Model 3 real, the car meant to bring electric driving to everyday people.

The compiler pioneer behind LLVM and Swift brought his craft to Tesla's Autopilot software team.

He led the Model X program and oversaw the public launch of Autopilot in 2015, one of the first driver-assist systems in a shipping car.

He grew from an Autopilot software engineer into the leader who took the Optimus humanoid robot from idea to working prototype.

The ex-AMD chip designer led the team that built Dojo and its custom D1 silicon to train Tesla's vision models.

He led Tesla's battery team for over a decade and built the Panasonic cell partnership that powered the Roadster and Model S.

She oversaw the cell quality and safety work behind the Model S, Model X, Model 3, Powerwall, and Powerpack.

A materials scientist who helped invent new alloys, he split his weeks between Tesla and SpaceX to push what metals can do.

He led the vehicle software and over-the-air updates that let a Tesla quietly get better in your driveway overnight.

The ArtCenter-trained designer shaped the look of the Supercharger and Tesla's home energy products, holding over 130 patents across his career.

Over 13 years he grew from analyst to CFO, helping steer Tesla's finances through the years it finally turned durably profitable.

He led the product work behind the Powerwall, giving households a way to store their own solar energy at home.

He started Tesla's stationary storage business from scratch, defining the products that became Tesla Energy.

She led the Supercharger business and brought rival automakers onto Tesla's plug, making fast charging easier for far more drivers.

A 22-year Audi production veteran, he came to Tesla to help scale Model 3 output and teach a young company how to build cars in volume.