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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.
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 ...
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]
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.
Straubel joined Tesla as its fifth employee in 2004, [6] and is named as a co-founder. [7] He was its inaugural chief technical officer [3] until moving to an advisory role in July 2019. [4] At Tesla, Straubel led battery cell design, supply chain and led the first Gigafactory concept through the production
A 2009 lawsuit settlement with Eberhard designated Musk as a Tesla co-founder, along with Tarpenning and two others. [126] [127] As of 2019, Musk was the longest-tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally. [128] In 2021, Musk nominally changed his title to "Technoking" while retaining his position as CEO. [129]
He is the co-founder and chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has built hundreds of outdoor classrooms called Learning Gardens in schoolyards across the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Musk is also the co-founder and chairman of Square Roots, an urban farming company growing food in hydroponic, indoor, climate controlled shipping ...
He was a board member of Synthetic Genomics, Planet Labs, Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel), [14] Flux, D-Wave, SpaceX, [5] [15] and Tesla. [16] Jurvetson was a member of the Tesla board of directors from 2006 to December 2020.