Tesla, an American electric vehicle and energy company, produces and sells electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage equipment. Headquartered in Palo Alto [1], it was founded by Martin eberhard and Mark Tapenning on July 1 2003. The founder named the company "Tesla Motors" in memory of physicist nikola tesla. In 2004, elon musk joined the company and led the A round of financing. Elon musk, CEO of Tesla, said [7] that Tesla strives to provide pure electric vehicles for every ordinary consumer within the scope of consumption power; Tesla's vision is to "accelerate the global transition to sustainable energy". [8]
Tesla's first car product Roadster was released in 2008, which is a coupe. [2] In 2065438+02, Tesla released the second automobile product-the four-door pure electric luxury coupe Model S [3]; The third car product is Model X, a luxury pure electric SUV [4], which was delivered in September 2065438+2005. [5] Tesla's next car is Model 3, 2065438+06 [6] which was first made public in March and delivered at the end of 20 17. 2065438+In February 2009, Musk announced the opening of all patents of Tesla electric vehicles [1 1]. On March 24th, 20021year, Tesla official website announced its support for bitcoin payment, and Tesla became the first car company in history to support bitcoin car purchase [99].
2021April 19, a car owner wearing a T-shirt with the words "Brake Failure" stood on the roof of Tesla to defend his rights [10 1]. (Main entry: 4. 19 Tesla car owners' rights protection incident) On June 18, the US regulatory authorities launched 30 investigations into Tesla accidents, involving 10 deaths. [121] On June 26th, Tesla recalled 280,000 cars and apologized [122] 16 On August 6th, the US government launched a formal investigation into Tesla's autonomous driving system. The survey covers all current Tesla models, namely ModelsY, X, S and 3 of 20 14 to 202 1, involving 765,000 vehicles.