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Tesla, Inc.
Formerly Tesla Motors, Inc. (2003–February 2017)
Type Public
Traded as
  • Nasdaq: TSLA
  • Nasdaq-100 component
  • S&P 100 component
  • S&P 500 component
ISIN US88160R1014
Industry
  • Automotive
  • Renewable energy
Founded July 1, 2003; 18 years ago in San Carlos, California, U.S.
Founders See § Founding
Headquarters 13101 Tesla Road, 
Austin, Texas
, 
United States
Number of locations
 655 retail stores/galleries and service centers (2021)
Area served
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Oceania
  • East Asia
  • West Asia
Key people
  • Robyn Denholm (Chair)
  • Elon Musk (CEO)
  • Zach Kirkhorn (CFO)
  • Drew Baglino (CTO)
Products
  • Model S
  • Model X
  • Model 3
  • Model Y
  • Powerwall, Powerpack, and Megapack
  • Solar panels and Solar Roof
  • Tesla Energy Software
Production output
  • Increase 930,422 vehicles (2021)
  • Increase 3.99 GWh battery energy storage systems (2021)
  • Increase 345 MW solar (2021)
Services
  • Vehicle servicing
  • Charging
  • Insurance
  • Software updates and upgrades
  • Premium Connectivity
Revenue Increase US$53.8 billion (2021)
Operating income
 Increase US$6.52 billion (2021)
Net income
 Increase US$5.52 billion (2021)
Total assets Increase US$62.1 billion (2021)
Total equity Increase US$30.2 billion (2021)
Owner
  • Elon Musk (17%)[1][a]
Number of employees
 Increase 99,290 (2021)
Subsidiaries
  • DeepScale
  • Tesla Energy
  • Tesla Grohmann Automation
Website tesla.com
Footnotes / references
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Founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors, the company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, X.com co-founder Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company and its chairman. He has served as CEO since 2008. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric vehicles and solar power. Tesla began production of its first car model, the Roadster sports car, in 2009. This was followed by the Model S sedan in 2012, the Model X SUV in 2015, the Model 3 sedan in 2017, and the Model Y crossover in 2020. The Model 3 is the all-time best-selling plug-in electric car worldwide, and, in June 2021, became the first electric car to sell 1 million units globally. Tesla's global sales were 936,222 cars in 2021, a 87% increase over the previous year, and cumulative sales totaled 2.3 million cars at the end of 2021. In October 2021, Tesla's market capitalization reached $1 trillion, the sixth company to do so in U.S. history.Tesla, Inc. (/ˈtɛslə/ TESS-lə or /ˈtɛzlə/ TEZ-lə) is an American automotive electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla is one of the world's most valuable companies and remains the world's most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of more than US $1 trillion. The company had the most worldwide sales of battery electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles, capturing 23% of the battery-electric (purely electric) market and 16% of the plug-in market (which includes plug-in hybrids) in 2020. Through its subsidiary Tesla Energy, the company develops and is a major installer of photovoltaic systems in the United States. Tesla Energy is also one of the largest global suppliers of battery energy storage systems, with 3.99 gigawatt-hours (GWh) installed in 2021.

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Nikola Tesla
Никола Тесла
Head-and-shoulder photograph of a slender man with dark hair and moustache, dark suit and white-collar shirt
Portrait by Napoleon Sarony, 1890s
Born 10 July 1856
Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)
Died 7 January 1943 (aged 86)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place Nikola Tesla Museum
Belgrade, Serbia
Citizenship Austrian (1856–1891)
American (1891–1943)
Education Graz University of Technology (dropped out)
Engineering career
Discipline Electrical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Projects
  • Alternating current
  • high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments
Significant design
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Awards
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Signature
Nikola Tesla signature 1900.svg

 

Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/ TESS-lə; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, pronounced [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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