Sunday 8 February 2015

Tesla: A promising business



The aim of this blog is to introduce you and help you to discover Tesla   Motors and bring you all the news about this company wich is not really well known in Europe and yet very promising. I hope this blog will provide you usefull news, make Tesla Motors appreciated and why not make you the next purchaser of these cars ! 

 Presentation of the company 



               Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Californian company founded in 2003 by Elon Musk, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, JB Straubel and Ian Wright, marketing motor vehicle all electric power and premium. His headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of the Silicon Valley and it has subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Asia.

The name of the company "Tesla" is inspired by the famous Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, physicist genius of the early 20th century, known for his work on electricity.

In 2014, Tesla Motors, which sells about 20 000 vehicles worldwide each year (more than 1.9 million against Fiat for example) entered the Nasdaq for more than $ 23 billion, nearly two and a half times as Fiat (capitalized at $ 9 billion).

These figures reflect the potential of the company.

Tesla Motors employs approximately 3,000 full-time employees and produces about 22,000 vehicles each year and that number continues to grow.

Among the five founders, the most famous is Elon Musk, also founder of the famous online payment service PayPal. Elon Musk is considered by many as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the XXI century, often compared to Steve Jobs. Originally from South Africa, he continued his studies at Stanford University where he earned a doctorate in physics. Soon after, he launched PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla. It is also known to be at the initiative of Hyper Loop Project, an innovative underground transportation system that will connect maybe a New York day to Los Angles in 1:30hours.


The next article will present you the 2 principal Tesla models. 

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