Tesla Motors, Inc.

Name:	Tesla Motors, Inc.
Industries:	Automotive
Employees:	475
Headquarters:	1050 Bing St San Carlos, CA 94070 United States
Website:
www.teslamotors.com/

Tesla Motors designs and sells high performance, super efficient electric cars. Tesla Motors cars join style, acceleration, and handling with advanced technologies that make them the quickest and the most energy-efficient cars on the planet.

Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based automobile startup company focusing on the production of high performance, consumer-oriented battery electric vehicles.

At the core of Tesla Motors is the belief that an electric car need not be a driving sacrifice. We have brought the best of the automotive and technology worlds together to permanently bury the image of an electric car as a step backwards in performance, efficiency, or design. Our key technology is the 100% electric powertrain, which propels us in the present and simultaneously establishes a foundation for our future models. We set out to forever alter perceptions of electric vehicles and to make electric cars a viable alternative. We have produced a car that is at once beautiful and exciting to drive, along with being the most efficient production automobile on the planet.

The firm was incorporated in July 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California.

The first Tesla store opened in Los Angeles, CA in April 2008. A second store opened in Menlo Park, California in July 2008.

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