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Tesla was the first car company to have fully repaid the government; [35] Nissan repaid their loan in 2017, and Fisker went bankrupt and defaulted on their loan. [ 36 ] The company announced in early August 2009 that it had achieved overall corporate profitability for the month of July 2009. [ 37 ]
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]
Tesla also became the first auto manufacturer to produce 1 million electric cars in March 2020. [224] Global sales of the Model 3 passed the 1 million milestone in June 2021, the first electric car model to do so. [225] However, later in May 2023, the Model Y became the world's best selling vehicle in Q1. [226]
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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 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 ...
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
Cameras attached to the Tesla sports car capture a photograph of the vehicle in February 2018 after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. ... The car has an extremely small chance of ever ...