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Tesla motors origin
History of Tesla, Inc.
Corporate history of the American electric vehicle manufacturer
Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer and clean energy company founded in San Carlos, California in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
The company is named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla is the world's leading electric vehicle manufacturer, and, as of the end of 2021, Tesla's cumulative global vehicle sales totaled 2.3 million units.[1]
The beginnings – Roadster and private funding
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 between high