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Civil Cover Sheet

District Court, W.D. Texas

Docket Number:

6:26-cv-00477

Citation:<br>Tesla, Inc. v. Angstrom Automotive Group, LLC, 6:26-cv-00477, (W.D. Tex. Jul 23, 2026) ECF No. 1

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July 23rd, 2026, 6:26 p.m. CDT

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COMPLAINT Original ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ATXWDC-22361525). No Summons requested at this time, filed by Tesla, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet)(Collier, Marc) (Entered: 07/23/2026)

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Case 6:26-cv-00477-CRW-DNM Document 1 Filed 07/23/26 Page 1 of 18

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT<br>FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS<br>WACO DIVISION

TESLA, INC., §<br>Plaintiff, §<br>v. § Civil Action No. 6:26-cv-0477<br>ANGSTROM AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, § JURY TRIAL DEMANDED<br>LLC, §<br>Defendant. §

PLAINTIFF TESLA, INC.’S ORIGINAL COMPLAINT

Plaintiff Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) files this Original Complaint against Defendant Angstrom

Automotive Group, LLC (“Angstrom”) and respectfully shows the Court the following:

I. INTRODUCTION

1. One of the oldest rules taught from the playground is when property belongs to

someone else, you return it. Here, Tesla owns specialized manufacturing tooling in Angstrom’s

possession. Tesla designed the tooling, paid for it in full, and has an unconditional contractual

right to retrieve it. Tesla demanded the return of its property. Angstrom refused. Now, this

Court’s intervention is required to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Tesla.

2. This case is about Angstrom’s unlawful refusal to permit Tesla to retrieve its own

property—custom-manufactured tooling, jigs, dies, gauges, fixtures, molds, patterns, and related

equipment (collectively, the “Tooling”)—from a manufacturing facility located in Troy, Texas

(the “Anderton Facility”). Tesla designed, commissioned, and paid for that Tooling in full, and

has a contractual, unlimited right to retrieve that Tooling from the Anderton Facility. Angstrom

is not using the Tooling and has no legitimate purpose for retaining it. Instead, Angstrom is

Tesla’s Original Complaint Page 1 of 18<br>Case 6:26-cv-00477-CRW-DNM Document 1 Filed 07/23/26 Page 2 of 18

leveraging its possession of Tesla’s property to extract commercial concessions to which it has no

contractual entitlement.

3. Angstrom is leveraging the Tooling for its own gain; in the last month alone,

Angstrom has informed Tesla of its intention to shut down the Anderton facility, and then

attempted to condition its continued operation of the Anderton Facility and the Tooling on Tesla’s

agreement to pay Angstrom $250,000 per week (on top of any payments for parts manufactured

and shipped)—a unilateral demand with no basis in the parties’ contract.

4. Angstrom’s refusal to allow Tesla to retrieve the Tooling also causes irreparable

harm to Tesla because that Tooling is the means by which critical components for Tesla’s

Cybertrucks are manufactured. As of the date of this filing, Tesla is not aware of any currently

qualified alternative supplier that can produce these components in the required volume using

existing tooling. Tesla’s on-hand supply of the parts produced using the Tooling is dwindling and

will be exhausted shortly due to Angstrom’s refusal to ship Tesla’s parts...