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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.
The Tesla Model S is a battery-electric, four-door full-size car produced by the American automaker Tesla since 2012. The automaker's second vehicle and longest-produced model, critics have called the Model S one of the most significant and influential electric cars in the industry.
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 ...
According to the story, in 1931, Tesla modified a Pierce-Arrow car in Buffalo, New York by removing the gasoline engine and replacing it with a brushless AC electric motor. The motor was purportedly powered by a "cosmic energy power receiver" contained in a box measuring 25 inches by 10 inches by 6 inches, which contained 12 radio vacuum tubes ...
In January 2019 the Model 3 overtook the Model S as the U.S. all-time best selling all-electric car, [134] and, the next month, also passed the Chevrolet Volt to become the all-time top selling plug-in electric car in the U.S. [28] The Tesla Model 3 ended 2019 as the world's best-selling plug-in electric car for the second consecutive year ...
One out of two new passenger cars registered in Norway in 2019 was a plug-in electric car [252] Early 2020: 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]
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The Model Y is Tesla's first vehicle to use a heat pump instead of electric resistance for interior cabin heating. [48] [49] Electric cars using electric resistance heating can lose 40% or more of their range in ambient temperatures below 20 °F (−7 °C). [50] [51] The heat pump can be up to 300% more efficient than electric resistance ...