Tesla’s board in March contacted multiple executive placement firms to begin a search process for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk at the helm of the embattled electric car company, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night,

Elon Musk and Tesla's chair early on Thursday vehemently denied a Wall Street Journal report saying the EV company's board had launched a search process for a new CEO to potentially replace the world's richest person.

You can get in touch with James by emailing [email protected] Elon Musk has responded to a report from the Wall Street Journal that the Tesla board was seeking to replace him as CEO, calling it a "deliberately false article.