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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, lithium-ion batteries, solar shingles, chargers, automobile parts, manufacturing equipment and tools for its own factories, as well as a lithium ore refinery. The following is a list of current, future and ...
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 ...
Tesla Factory: 45500 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, California 94538 Tesla Model S, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model X, Tesla Model Y: Gigafactory Texas: 13101 Tesla Road, Austin, Texas 78725 Tesla Cybertruck, Tesla Model Y: Gigafactory Nevada: 1 Electric Ave, Sparks, Nevada 89437 Tesla Semi
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 began delivery of the Roadster, an electric sports car, in 2008. With sales of about 2,500 vehicles, it was the first mass production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells. [129] Tesla began delivery of its four-door Model S sedan in 2012. [130] A crossover, the Model X was launched in 2015. [131]
Elon Musk is known as one of the world's richest men, the founder and CEO of Tesla and a Tennessee economic investor and most recently one of Donald Trump's allies.
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.
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 ]