Tesla's goal was to start with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then moving into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts. Musk consistently maintained that Tesla's long-term strategic goal was to create affordable mass market electric vehicles. The insignia of Tesla Motors as seen on a Tesla Roadster Sport Elon Musk, Martin Eberhard, Barney Hatt, Tesla Motors also received the 2007 Index Design award for their design of the Tesla Roadster. Musk received the Global Green 2006 product design award for the design of the Tesla Roadster, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Musk insisted from the beginning on a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer body and contributed to the car style. Musk took an active role within the company and oversaw Roadster product design, but was not deeply involved in day-to-day business operations. A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders. Straubel joined in May 2004 as the fifth employee. The three went looking for venture capital (VC) funding in January 2004 and connected with Elon Musk, who contributed US$6.5 million of the initial ( Series A) US$7.5 million round of investment in February 2004 and became chairman of the board of directors. Ian Wright was the third employee, joining a few months later. Eberhard said he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor". The AC Propulsion tzero also inspired the company's first vehicle, the Roadster. The founders were influenced to start the company after General Motors recalled all its EV1 electric cars in 2003 and then destroyed them, and seeing the higher fuel efficiency of battery-electric cars as an opportunity to break the usual correlation between high performance and low fuel economy in automobiles. Tesla was incorporated (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California. The beginnings – Roadster and private funding Tesla is the world's leading electric vehicle manufacturer, and, as of the end of 2021, Tesla's cumulative global vehicle sales totaled 2.3 million units.
The company is named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. This is the corporate history of Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer and clean energy company founded in San Carlos, California in 2001 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points.
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