By Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.

Shares of Tesla rose about 1% in after-hours trading. The proposal was approved with over 75% support.

The vote, analysts have said, is a positive for Tesla’s stock, whose valuation hangs on Musk’s vision of making vehicles drive themselves, expanding robotaxis across the U.S. and selling humanoid robots, even though his far-right political rhetoric has hurt the Tesla brand this year.

Musk took to the stage in Austin, Texas, along with dancing robots. “What we are about to embark upon is not merely a new

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