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Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California, USA. Key Tesla products are electric cars (the Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y), battery energy storage from home to grid scale (the Powerwall, Powerpack, and Megapack), solar panels and solar roof tiles, as well as various related products and services.

Tesla was founded in July 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Eberhard intended to build a car manufacturer that is also a technology company, with its core technologies being the battery, the computer software and the proprietary motor.

The next 3 employees at Tesla were Ian Wright, Elon Musk, and J.B. Straubel. Musk serves as CEO since 2008. Musk is also the founder (2002) and CEO of of aerospace company SpaceX.

Tesla currently ranks as the world's best-selling plug-in and battery electric passenger car manufacturer. Its global vehicle sales surpassed the 1 million mark of electric cars produced and the Model 3 is the world's all-time best-selling plug-in electric car.

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