Share the QR code < / P > < p > with friends and circles of friends < / P > < p > financial Associated Press (Shanghai, editor Bian Chun) news, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., sold nearly $940 million worth of Tesla shares on Thursday, one step closer to the goal of selling 10% of its shares < p > < / P > < p > according to the documents of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, musk exercised 2165241 options at the price of US $6.24 per share on December 9, and sold 934091 Tesla shares at the price of US $1003 to US $1062, with a value of nearly US $940 million. The sale of shares is intended to meet the withholding tax obligation for the exercise of options < p > as part of the compensation plan, musk received 22.8 million stock option awards in 2012 at an exercise price of $6.24 per share. These options will expire in August next year, and musk must pay income tax on the proceeds from the exercise < p > musk said in September that he planned to sell a large number of shares in the fourth quarter. Media reported last month that musk faced about $15 billion in tax bills related to exercise < p > musk has made a series of selling in recent weeks. The last time he sold Tesla shares was on December 2. Since November 8, musk has exercised about 12.86 million stock options and sold more than 11.03 million Tesla shares, worth nearly $12 billion < p > on November 6, musk launched a poll on twitter asking his 62.5 million fans whether he should sell 10% of Tesla shares. The voting results showed that nearly 58% of the 3.5 million votes supported the sale. However, in fact, the stock sale plan had been arranged before the voting results were released < p > when musk conducted the survey, he owned about 170 million Tesla shares, of which 10% was 17 million. This means that musk has sold nearly 65% of its expected sales, and he still has about 6 million shares for sale < p > Tesla shares plunged 6.1% on Thursday. On the one hand, musk sold Tesla at an unprecedented speed, which made the stock dark. On the other hand, Tesla also faced a series of negative news recently < p > Tesla's internal service document released at the end of November shows that due to problems in the circuit board, Tesla will replace the side relay camera of some models made in the United States < p > according to media reports earlier this week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation into Tesla because it did not correctly inform its shareholders and the public of the fire risk related to solar panels < p > at the same time, Tesla is also facing the safety investigation of its auxiliary driving system accident by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (nhta) < p > Tesla's share price has fallen more than 6% in the past 30 days, but it is still up 38% so far this year. Despite the recent decline in wealth, musk is still sitting at $282 billion, the richest man in the world, according to the Bloomberg billionaire index