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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 ...
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's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum to honor him. [7]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.
The story has been subject to debate due to the lack of physical evidence to confirm both the existence of the car and the fact that Tesla did not have a nephew named Peter Savo. Tesla's grand-nephew, William Terbo, has also dismissed the Tesla electric car story as a fabrication. [citation needed]
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [4] [5] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[6] [7] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
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
A Tesla spokesperson declined to comment on the change, raising the likelihood of a settlement. [20] In September 2009, Tesla confirmed the settlement, but did not provide further details. [21] Eberhard confirmed in an interview with CNBC in October 2019 that he is still a shareholder of Tesla, and is still rooting for their success. [22]
The success of American Motors's compact-sized Rambler models spurred GM and Ford to introduce their own downsized cars in 1960. [61] Performance engines became a focus of marketing by US automakers, exemplified by the era's muscle cars. [62] In 1964, the Ford Mustang developed a new market segment, the pony car. [63]