Tesla, Inc. facts for kids
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Gigafactory Texas, Tesla's headquarters, in Austin, Texas
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Tesla Motors, Inc. (2003–2017) |
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| ISIN | ISIN: [https://isin.toolforge.org/?language=en&isin=US88160R1014 US88160R1014] |
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| Founded | July 1, 2003 in San Carlos, California, U.S. |
| Founders | Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright, Elon Musk, J. B. Straubel See § Founding |
| Headquarters | Gigafactory Texas,
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1,208 sales, service and delivery centers |
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| Revenue |  US$96.8 billion (2023) |
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 US$8.9 billion (2023) |
| US$15.0 billion (2023) |
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| Total assets | US$106.6 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$62.6 billion (2023) |
| Owner | Elon Musk (21%) |
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140,473 (2023) |
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| Footnotes / references Financials as of December 31, 2023[update]. References: |
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Tesla, Inc. is a company that makes cool electric cars and clean energy products. It was started in 2003 in California. One of its founders is Elon Musk, who is also the CEO today. Tesla began selling its first car, the Roadster, in 2008.
The company's name comes from Nikola Tesla. He was a famous inventor who worked with electricity and many other ideas over a hundred years ago.
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Tesla's Electric Cars and More
Tesla makes several different types of electric cars. They also create products that help store and use solar energy.
Popular Tesla Car Models
Tesla Model S: A Luxury Ride
The Model S is a large, fancy car. It has a special design that lets you open the back like a hatchback. This car has two motors and can power all its wheels. Tesla started selling the Model S in 2012. It was the most popular electric car in the world in 2015 and 2016.
Tesla Model X: The SUV with Falcon Wings
The Model X is a luxury SUV. It can carry 5, 6, or 7 people. The coolest thing about it is its "falcon-wing" doors. These doors open upwards, like a bird's wings! Deliveries of the Model X began in 2015.
Tesla Model 3: An Affordable Electric Car
The Model 3 is a mid-size car that was designed to be more affordable. It can have two motors for all-wheel drive or one motor for rear-wheel drive. When it was first shown in 2016, over 325,000 people pre-ordered it in just one week! The Model 3 was the world's best-selling electric car from 2018 to 2021.
Tesla Model Y: A Popular Crossover SUV
The Model Y is a mid-size SUV. It can seat 5 or 7 passengers. It's designed to be more affordable than the Model X. Deliveries started in 2020. In early 2023, the Model Y became the world's best-selling car overall, which was a first for an electric vehicle!
Tesla Semi: The Electric Truck
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The Tesla Semi is a powerful electric semi-truck. Tesla says it has about three times the power of a regular diesel truck. It can travel about 500 miles (800 km) on a single charge. The first trucks were delivered to PepsiCo in late 2022.
Tesla Cybertruck: A Futuristic Pickup
The Cybertruck is a full-sized electric pickup truck. It has a very unique, angular design made from strong, unpainted stainless steel. It was first shown in 2019, and deliveries began in late 2023.
Future Tesla Products
Second Generation Roadster: Super Fast Sports Car
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Tesla plans to release a new version of its Roadster sports car. This car is expected to be incredibly fast, going from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) in just 1.9 seconds! It's also designed to travel over 620 miles (1,000 km) on one charge. There might even be a "SpaceX Package" with special thrusters to make it even faster.
Tesla's Next Big Vehicle
Tesla is working on a new type of electric vehicle platform. This new platform is expected to allow Tesla to make even more cars than its current models. These new vehicles are planned for release around 2025 or later.
Past Tesla Vehicles
Original Tesla Roadster: The First Electric Sports Car
The first Tesla car ever made was the original Tesla Roadster. It was a two-seater sports car produced from 2008 to 2012. This car was special because it was the first electric car to use lithium-ion batteries and could travel more than 200 miles (320 km) on a single charge.
A fun fact about this car: one of them was launched into space by Elon Musk's other company, SpaceX, in 2018! It's now orbiting the Sun.
Images for kids
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The insignia of Tesla as seen on a Tesla Roadster Sport.
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The Tesla obelisk helps identify Supercharger stations in California.
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A Tesla gallery in Austin, Texas.
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A Tesla Electric Car Recharging Station in the USA (2014).
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The Tesla Patent Wall at its headquarters.
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A comparison of electric car ranges from 2016-2017.
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Tesla started making its Tesla Model S sedan in 2012.
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Quarterly Model S global sales up to March 2017.
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Norway is a big market for the Model S due to incentives for electric cars.
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Robots helping to build the Model S at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California.
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Elon Musk delivering one of the first Model X cars.
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The Tesla Model X (right) and Model S (left) sharing parts.
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A Tesla Model 3 prototype at its unveiling in 2016.
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A Tesla Model S charging at a Supercharger station in Delaware.
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A panoramic view of a Tesla Supercharger station in Tejon Ranch, California.
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New Tesla Model S cars at the Tesla Factory in 2012.
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A Tesla store in Toronto.
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A Tesla showroom in Munich, Germany.
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Tesla Motor's first Japanese showroom in Aoyama, Tokyo.
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The Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive uses a battery pack made by Tesla.
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The Toyota RAV4 EV second generation.
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Panasonic Energy Company President Naoto Noguchi with Tesla CTO JB Straubel.
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See also
In Spanish: Tesla, Inc. para niños
