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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.
Robotic manufacturing of the Model S at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. Tesla, Inc. operates plants worldwide for the manufacture of their products, including electric vehicles, [1] lithium-ion batteries, solar shingles, chargers, automobile parts, manufacturing equipment and tools for its own factories, as well as a lithium ore refinery.
Rawlinson joined Tesla in February [9] 2009 [10] as Vice President and Chief Vehicle Engineering of Tesla Model S. [11] One week after joining, he told his boss, Elon Musk, that the early Model S prototype was a "false dawn" and that Rawlinson's 6-person team would have to restart the engineering work on Tesla's flagship vehicle from a "clean ...
In mid-2018, Tesla took control of a third building with an area of 36,000 square metres (390,000 sq ft), approximately 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east of the headquarters building. [8] Now called the Tesla Global Parts Distribution Centre & Warehouse, the building had been certified by BREEAM as having a "very good" sustainability rating.
By January 2009, Tesla had raised US$187 million and delivered 147 cars. Musk had contributed US$70 million of his own money to the company. [27] On May 19, 2009, Germany's Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz, acquired an equity stake of less than 10% of Tesla for a reported US$50 million. [30] According to Musk, the Daimler investment saved ...
In 2010, Kirkhorn joined Tesla as a senior analyst in finance. [3] In December 2014, he became director of finance, and in December 2018 he was appointed as vice president of finance. On January 30, 2019, Kirkhorn was announced to replace Deepak Ahuja as Tesla's new CFO on the fourth-quarter Tesla earnings call. [ 4 ]
Tesla (band), an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California; Tesla – Lightning in His Hand, a 2003 opera by Constantine Koukias "Tesla", a song on the 2013 album Nanobots by They Might Be Giants "Tesla" (song), a 2023 song by Lil Yachty "Tesla", a 2008 song by the Bosnian band Letu štuke; Tesla, a 2016 film by David Grubin
Speaking at the G8 summit in 2008, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans for Britain to be at the forefront of a "green car revolution". He suggested that by 2020 all new cars sold in Britain could be electric or hybrid vehicles producing less than 100 grams of CO 2 per kilometre (5.7 oz(CO 2)/mi). [9]