Elon Musk said he wants to take Tesla private, but late Friday said he now believes it’s better for Tesla to remain a public company. “I knew the process of going private would be challenging, but it’s clear that it would be even more time-consuming and distracting than initially anticipated,” the company’s CEO wrote. While Musk is no longer determined to take Tesla private, there are people out there who still want to take your Tesla. They too find it challenging. Good news for those owners: Almost all stolen Teslas are eventually returned. In 2011, only one Tesla TSLA, -0.49% had ever been stolen in the U.S. That was four years after Tesla produced its first model, the Tesla Roadster, and one year after the company went public. The number of these electric cars being stolen has steadily increased every year along with production: 6 in 2013, 15 in 2014, 9 in 2015, 28 in 2016, 57 in 2017 and 23 from January to May 2018. And yet almost every stolen Tesla over those years has been recovered — all except 3, including that sole Tesla stolen in 2011. (Tesla did not respond to request for comment.) The recovery of stolen Teslas is notable in an industry where the overall recovery rate for stolen vehicles was just 58.4% in 2016. Tesla had a 100% recovery rate that year, thanks in part to its GPS tracking technology. “That’s about as good as it gets,” said Fank Scafidi, director of public affairs at the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which crunched the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Crime Information Center data. “I’m wondering if the thieves’ intellect might have been overwhelmed just sitting in a Tesla, much less figuring out how to operate it for any length of time.” via