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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 ...
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, that is based on the Lotus Elise chassis, and was produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012.The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge. [7]
The Tesla Model 3 surpassed the Nissan Leaf as the world's best selling plug-in electric car in history [208] Mar 2020: The Tesla Model 3 is the first electric car to sell more than 500,000 units since inception. [208] Tesla, Inc. becomes the first auto manufacturer to produce 1 million electric cars [224] Apr 2020
It made the electric car cool. The company's first vehicle, the all-electric Roadster had a range of 245 miles, which matched the lower end range for gas-powered engines. Oh, and it went from 0-60 ...
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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.
It's tempting to think car companies such as Tesla Motors and Nissan were the first to introduce electric vehicles to world. Of course no car company before them has been able to bring such ...
For 2013, Tesla aimed to quadruple that. Tesla built its 1,000th Model S by October 31, 2012, [220] and delivered 2,650 units by the end of the year. [221] In the first half of the subsequent year, 10,050 units were delivered to customers. [222] The Model S was the first vehicle by Tesla produced at the Fremont facility. [223]