Tesla is an American electric vehicle and energy company, which was founded by Martin eberhard and Mark Tapenning in Silicon Valley in 2003. The company is named after the physicist nikola tesla. It mainly produces and sells electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage equipment.
In 2004, elon musk entered the company and led the A round of financing. 2065438+In February 2009, Musk announced the opening of all patents of Tesla electric vehicles.
On March 24th, 20021year, Tesla became the first car company in history to support bitcoin car purchase. 202 1 12 Headquarters was officially moved from Palo Alto to Texas.
On May 2, 2022/KLOC-0, 2022, Forbes Global Enterprise 2000 was released, and Tesla ranked150th.
Tesla's birth story
Tesla was not founded by elon musk himself. Before investing in Tesla, he was already a successful Internet entrepreneur, investor and billionaire.
According to Musk's theory: money can't be idle, otherwise it is no different from waste paper. So, he invested the primitive accumulation in his own space exploration technology company.
The founders of Tesla are MartinEberhard and MarcTarpenning, who are also outstanding in the tide of Internet entrepreneurship in the United States at the end of last century.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tesla.