Elon Musk exercises options to buy 10,500 Tesla shares

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk speaks on stage during an event to deliver Chinese-made Tesla Model 3 vehicles at a factory in Shanghai, China, January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

(Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc chief executive Elon Musk has exercised options to buy 10,500 shares of the electric car maker, U.S. securities filings showed on Friday.

(This story has been amended to say that Musk exercised an option to buy Tesla shares and removed the $50,000 reference in the title and paragraph 1)