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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.
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 Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [3] [4] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[5] [6] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
Last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk teased the idea of building a Tesla manufacturing plant in Texas. There's no denying that this idea seems far-fetched, ludicrous even, given Tesla's resources ...
As a 19-year-old college student at the University of Texas, Dell created a start-up called PC Limited to sell computers to IBM. Since 1985 the company has sold computers directly to consumers ...
Tesla moved its headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, and opened its Texas gigafactory near Austin in 2022. The company currently produces Model Y cars there and plans to make its ...
In 2003, Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard collaborated again and founded Tesla Motors (now Tesla Inc.). 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 ]
He founded Tesla in 2003 and is also the CEO of the electric automaker. Tesla has a market cap of $846.47 billion, as of July 21. SpaceX is not publicly traded but is valued at $127 billion, as of ...