TESLA INC. — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 18 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

236

Filed by

Reported in-house

$9,470,000

Reported by firms

$4,605,162

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2011 to 2026

Filings

236 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	TESLA INC.	$650,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CAPITOL CONSULTING GROUP LLC (DC)	$20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	RICH FEUER ANDERSON	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC	$90,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	TESLA INC.	$650,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	CAPITOL CONSULTING GROUP LLC (DC)	$20,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	$90,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	RICH FEUER ANDERSON	$40,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC	$90,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
TESLA INC. In-house	60	$9,470,000
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.	22	$1,270,000
WEST FRONT STRATEGIES LLC	19	$650,000
TAI GINSBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC	21	$410,000
CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC	4	$355,162
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	9	$320,000
ERNST & YOUNG LLP (WASHINGTON COUNCIL ERNST & YOUNG)	4	$320,000
HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP	12	$300,000
FULCRUM PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC	16	$280,000
RICH FEUER ANDERSON	6	$240,000
PIONEER PUBLIC AFFAIRS	6	$170,000
CAPITOL CONSULTING GROUP LLC (DC)	5	$100,000
BURTON STRATEGY GROUP	5	$70,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	2	$50,000
ICE MILLER STRATEGIES LLC	2	$40,000
STEPTOE LLP	1	$30,000
RUBIN AND RUDMAN LLP	2	—
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	1	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	135
Automotive Industry	AUT	125
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	78
Transportation	TRA	67
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	42
Manufacturing	MAN	28
Natural Resources	NAT	25
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	23
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)	TAR	22
Roads/Highway	ROD	16
Telecommunications	TEC	8
Fuel/Gas/Oil	FUE	8
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	7
Government Issues	GOV	7
Clean Air and Water (quality)	CAW	6

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 3388	115th	19
S. 2302	116th	18
H.R. 2256	116th	18
H.R. 1	119th	16
H.R. 5376	117th	15
H.R. 3684	117th	14
H.R. 3353	115th	13
S. 1855	115th	13
S. 1655	115th	13
S. 1094	116th	12
H.R. 2	116th	11
S. 1669	118th	10
H.R. 6570	117th	10
H.R. 979	119th	8
S. 1298	117th	8
H.R. 4421	115th	8
S. 2153	115th	8
H.R. 1566	119th	7
H.R. 3413	118th	7
H.R. 2096	116th	7
S. 1142	116th	7
H.R. 2	117th	6
S. 674	116th	6
H.R. 2616	116th	6
S. 3023	115th	6

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.