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Tesla was incorporated (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California. [2] [3] [4] The founders were influenced to start the company after General Motors recalled all its EV1 electric cars in 2003 and then destroyed them, [5] and seeing the higher fuel efficiency of battery-electric cars as an opportunity to break the usual correlation ...
Elon Musk. Tesla CEO, Technoking, and board member. Executives Tom Zhu. Senior vice president Zhu was named senior vice president, automotive, in April 2023.
Tesla, Inc. (/ ˈ t ɛ s l ə / ⓘ TESS-lə or / ˈ t ɛ z l ə / TEZ-lə [a]) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services.
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sportscar with 244 miles (393 km) (EPA) range. On November 30, 2007, Tesla released a press release titled "Martin Eberhard, Co-founder of Tesla Motors, to Transition to Advisory Board." [15] Fortune magazine reported in December 2007 that chairman Elon Musk had asked Eberhard to leave.
The company received “thousands of customer reports regarding problems with Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ system between 2015 and 2022, including over 1,000 crashes; over 1,500 complaints about ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives to testify at the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 16, 2022. - Musk is testifying in a trial over his $50 billion pay package as ...
The two co-founders funded the company until early 2004, when Elon Musk led the company's $6.5 million Series A financing round in February 2004 and became the chairman of the board. [10] Tarpenning continued to serve as the chief financial officer (CFO) and the Vice President of Electrical Engineering in Tesla until 2008. [5] [11]
Elon Musk may be mounting his last stand as CEO of Tesla when the company convenes its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, with his Texas headquarters becoming his very own personal Alamo ...