✓ Verified sample29/29 claims cited31 public sources0 uncited claims droppedsynthesis: deterministic

SENTINEL Due-Diligence Dossier

Target: Tesla, Inc. Type: company Generated: 2026-08-13T00:38:11.300Z Synthesis: deterministic Dossier ID: dsr_tesla-inc_y3dhj7

Source integrity. 29/29 claims are backed by 31 cited public sources. 0 uncited claim(s) were dropped by the verifier. Every statement below links to a real, fetched source — nothing is inferred beyond what the cited material says.

⚠️ Risk Flags

  • 🟠 HIGH — Regulatory / investigative scrutiny: Tesla to recall over 20,000 US vehicles over excessively bright low-beam headlights - Reuters [E25]
  • 🟡 ELEVATED — Litigation: Tesla sued for $10 million over ‘Insane’ mode test-drive crash - Automotive News [E29]

Identity & Background

  • Background (encyclopedic): Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures, and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services. [E1]
  • Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: TESLA, INC. · LEI: 54930043XZGB27CTOV49 · Jurisdiction: US-TX · Legal address: Dallas, US-TX, US · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: ISSUED [E2] (high confidence)
  • Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: Tesla Engineering Inc · LEI: 875500C6WBPW5QGHAV60 · Jurisdiction: PA · Legal address: Panamá, PA-8, PA · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: LAPSED [E3] (high confidence)
  • Legal-entity identity (GLEIF): Legal name: TESLA · LEI: 969500RFR6THHK28RD81 · Jurisdiction: FR · Legal address: COURBEVOIE, FR · Entity status: ACTIVE · LEI registration: ISSUED [E4] (high confidence)
  • Regulatory identity: Registrant: Tesla, Inc. · Ticker(s): TSLA · SIC industry: Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies (3711) · HQ: AUSTIN, TX [E5] (high confidence)

Sanctions & Watchlist Screening

No entry on the screened sanctions lists exactly matches this name. SENTINEL matches names conservatively (exact match after normalising legal suffixes), so a differently-spelled, transliterated, or aliased listing would NOT be caught here — and screening only covers the lists shown in the Collection Log. This is not a sanctions clearance.

Corporate Structure & Ownership

No parent entity is reported in GLEIF Level-2 relationship data. That means none was reported — it does not establish that the entity is independent or ultimately owned by anyone in particular.

Financial & Regulatory Filings

  • Filing on record: 10-Q filed 2026-07-23 — Tesla, Inc. [E6] (high confidence)
  • Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-07-22 — Tesla, Inc. [E7] (high confidence)
  • Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-07-02 — Tesla, Inc. [E8] (high confidence)
  • Filing on record: 10-Q filed 2026-04-23 — Tesla, Inc. [E9] (high confidence)
  • Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-04-22 — Tesla, Inc. [E10] (high confidence)
  • Filing on record: 8-K filed 2026-04-02 — Tesla, Inc. [E11] (high confidence)
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by DENHOLM ROBYN M (CIK 0001242782) on 2022-05-04 [E12]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in NPORT-P filed by Tidal Trust II (CIK 0001924868) on 2025-12-30 [E13]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in NPORT-P filed by Tidal Trust II (CIK 0001924868) on 2025-09-29 [E14]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by MURDOCH JAMES R (CIK 0001420590) on 2026-01-06 [E15]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by Guillen Jerome M (CIK 0001584518) on 2020-09-03 [E16]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by DENHOLM ROBYN M (CIK 0001242782) on 2020-08-03 [E17]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by Musk Elon (CIK 0001494730) on 2021-11-10 [E18]
  • Named in another party's filing: "Tesla, Inc." named in 4 filed by Musk Elon (CIK 0001494730) on 2022-04-28 [E19]

Recent News & Signals (last 3 months)

  • [2026-08-12] Tesla files plans for proposed $10.1B Texas solar manufacturing plant - Fox Business [E20]
  • [2026-08-11] See How a Tesla-SpaceX Merger Gives Musk a Shortcut to His $1 Trillion Payday - WSJ [E21]
  • [2026-08-11] Elon Musk could get his near-$1 trillion payday a lot sooner if SpaceX buys Tesla - finance.yahoo.com [E22]
  • [2026-08-11] ‘All You Have to Do Is Be Bought’: A SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Be Musk’s $1 Trillion Payout Cheat Code - gizmodo.com [E23]
  • [2026-08-12] Tesla's AI Future Is Starting to Look a Lot Less Electric - finance.yahoo.com [E24]
  • [2026-08-11] Tesla to recall over 20,000 US vehicles over excessively bright low-beam headlights - Reuters [E25]
  • [2026-08-11] Tesla Built a Starlink Internet Dish Into Its Cybercab Robotaxi - businessinsider.com [E26]
  • [2026-08-11] Tesla Cybercabs make Nashville appearance - Nashville Post [E27]
  • [2026-08-12] Tesla's iTruck Moment (NASDAQ:TSLA) - Seeking Alpha [E28]
  • [2026-08-11] Tesla sued for $10 million over ‘Insane’ mode test-drive crash - Automotive News [E29]

Legal, Litigation & Adverse Media

Searched and found nothing naming this target: US federal securities enforcement (SEC litigation releases). NOT searched on this run: open-web adverse media (set SERPERAPI_KEY). State and county courts are not covered by any configured source._

Collection Log

Partial collection. 1 source(s) did not return data on this run (GDELT / global news: timeout). Their coverage is MISSING from this dossier, not inferred — treat the sections below as incomplete for those sources.
SourceStatusItemsNote
Wikipedia✅ ok1—
GLEIF LEI registry✅ ok3—
SEC EDGAR✅ ok7—
SEC EDGAR full-text✅ ok8—
OpenCorporates registry⏭️ skipped0set OPENCORPORATES_API_TOKEN to enable global company-registry lookups (officers, incorporation, status)
OFAC sanctions (SDN + Consolidated)⚪ empty (source had nothing)0—
UN Security Council Consolidated List⚪ empty (source had nothing)0—
EU Consolidated Sanctions List⏭️ skipped0set EU_SANCTIONS_TOKEN to enable the EU consolidated sanctions list (free token from the EU FSD portal) — OFAC and UN lists still ran
SEC litigation releases⚪ empty (source had nothing)0—
Google News✅ ok12—
GDELT / global news⌛ timeout0This operation was aborted (api.gdeltproject.org)
Open-web search⏭️ skipped0set SERPER_API_KEY (serper.dev) to enable open-web litigation/sanctions/adverse-media search

Sources

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