Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report that said board members had reached out to executive search firms to find a new replacement for CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla has hit back following a Wall Street Journal report that its board had initiated a search for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, taking to Musk’s social platform X to call the claim “absolutely false.”

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Thursday denied a report that the EV maker's board members had reached out to several executive search firms to start a formal process to replace CEO Elon Musk.