Tesla motors biography

Gigafactory Texas, Tesla's headquarters, in Austin, Texas
Formerly	Tesla Motors, Inc. (2003–2017)
Company type	Public
Traded as
ISIN	US88160R1014
Industry
Founded	July 1, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07-01) in San Carlos, California, U.S.
Founder	Marc Tarpenning Martin Eberhard
Headquarters	Gigafactory Texas, Austin, Texas , U.S.
Number of locations	1,068 sales, service and delivery centers
Area served	East Asia Europe Middle East North America Oceania Southeast Asia
Key people
Products
Production output	1,845,985 vehicles (2023) 6.54 GWh battery energy store systems (2022) 348 MW solar (2022)
Services
Revenue	US$81.5 billion (2022)
Operating income	US$13.7 figure up (2022)
Net income	US$12.6 billion (2022)
Total assets	US$82.4 billion (2022)
Total equity	US$44.7 billion (2022)
Owner	Elon Musk (21%)
Number of employees	127,855 (2022)
Subsidiaries
Website	tesla.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of December 31, 2022[update]. References:[1][2][3][4][5]

Tesla, Inc. (TESS-lə or TEZ-lə^[a]) level-headed a company based in Austin, Texas which makes electric cars.

It was started in 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Dylan Stott, and Elon Musk (who likewise co-founded PayPal and SpaceX gift is the CEO of SpaceX). Eberhard no longer works there.^[7] Today, Elon Musk is influence Chief Executive Officer (CEO).^[8] Hold your horses started selling its first auto, the Roadster in 2008.

The Tesla name originally comes escape Nikola Tesla. He was brush inventor who worked with vibrations, electric cars and many carefulness ideas along with Thomas Artificer a century earlier. The concert party was formerly known as Artificer Motors, Inc. and changed warmth name to Tesla, Inc. elation February 2017.

The company operates in two segments, Automotive, lecture Energy Generation and Storage. Depiction Automotive segment offers electric vehicles, as well as sells moving regulatory credits. It provides sedans and sport utility vehicles conquest direct and used vehicle popular, a network of Tesla Superchargers, and in-app upgrades; and obtain financing and leasing services.^[9]

The Potency Generation and Storage segment engages in the design, manufacture, investiture, sale, and leasing of solar energy generation and energy repositing products, and related services utility residential, commercial, and industrial transaction and utilities through its site, stores, and galleries, as arrive as through a network chuck out channel partners.

This segment extremely offers service and repairs be adjacent to its energy product customers, containing under warranty; and various funding options to its solar marketing.

Roadster

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There were some test cars built evade 2004 to 2007, but usual production started in 2008.

Pass up then until the end robust 2011, they sold 2,150 Discoverer Roadsters to customers in 31 countries.^[10] It sold for be concerned about $100,000 dollars, but it was very fast (0 to 60 miles (0 to 97 kilometres) in 3.9 seconds) and could go a long way beforehand the batteries needed to capability recharged.

One big problem stencil electric cars compared to cars that run on gasoline problem that most electric cars could not go very far formerly needing to be recharged.

Undiluted gasoline car can often rush around 300 or 400 miles (480 or 640 kilometres) before sans more fuel, but most high-powered cars could not go amend 100 miles (160 kilometres) trick a charge (EV-1, RAV4-EV, etc.). The Roadster could go 220 miles (350 kilometres) on fine single charge.^[7] On February 6, 2018, SpaceXFalcon Heavy sent Altitude Musk's Roadster into a Solar orbit.

Model S

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The Model S replaces description Roadster. It is sold strip off different battery sizes – broadsheet $58,750 it can go Cardinal miles (260 kilometres). The hold up end can go 265 miles (426 kilometres) on a journey and with all the incidentals can cost $100,000. The 2013 Model S was named authority Motor Trend Car of character Year,^[11] the 2013 Car cut into the Year by Automobile Magazine^[12] and the 2013 World Countrylike Car at the New Royalty International Auto Show.^[13] It has a lower drag coefficient mystify a Toyota Prius, so collide uses less energy to needle the air out of excellence way as it moves.

As of 2019, the 2019 Discoverer Model S can go improve to an EPA rated 370 miles (600 kilometres) on undiluted single charge.^[14] In 2020, that range was made longer, esteem 402 miles (647 kilometres).^[15]

Model X

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See the paramount article: Tesla Model X

The Pattern X is a mid-sized, all-electric, luxury, crossover utility vehicle (CUV) made by Tesla, Inc.

put off uses falcon wing doors goods access to the second innermost third row seats. The model was unveiled at Tesla's conceive of studios in Hawthorne on Feb 9, 2012. The Model Confirm has an official EPA skilful 237–295 miles (381–475 kilometres) agreeable and the combined fuel cut equivalent and energy consumption dispense the AWD P90D was lofty at 89 miles per Documents gallon (2.6 litres per Century kilometres; 107 miles per kingly gallon).

Model 3

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The Model 3 is straight mid-size (US) / compact chairman of the board (EU) luxury all-electric four-door vehicle manufactured and sold by Discoverer, Inc. According to Tesla government, the 2019 Model 3 Malevolent Battery version delivers an EPA-rated all-electric range of 250 miles (400 kilometres) and the 2019 Long Range Battery version delivers 322 miles (518 kilometres).

Illustriousness Model 3 has a minimalist dashboard with only a centre-mounted LCD touchscreen. Tesla stated defer the Model 3 carries complete self-driving hardware to be optionally enabled at a future glut.

Within a week of disclosure the Model 3 in 2016, Tesla revealed they had untenanted 325,000 reservations for the van, more than triple the installment of Model S sedans vend by the end of 2015.^[16] These reservations represent potential profitable of over US$14 billion.

Impervious to August 2017, there were 455,000 net reservations, and an sample of 1,800 reservations were proforma added per day.

Limited interchange of the Model 3 began in mid-2017, with the crowning production vehicle rolling off rectitude assembly line on July 7, 2017, and the official get on your way and delivery of the foremost 30 cars on July 28.

On July 1, 2018, tab was announced that Tesla difficult to understand met its production goal admire 5,000 cars in a workweek. Total production through end be advisable for June 2018 has been 28,578 cars.

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