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rallied for a fourth straight session as the spat between CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump showed further signs of a cooldown.

Shares rose about 2% Wednesday and were up more than 12% this week.

Tesla investors also caught a spark of hope for the company’s robotaxi strategy after Musk said the service will “tentatively” launch in Austin, Texas on June 22. In a post on X, Musk said the first driverless robotaxi will travel from the factory to a customer’s house on his June 28 birthday.

Overnight, the Tesla CEO said in a post on social media platform X that he regrets some of his recent social media posts about Trump and that they “went too far.”