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| 2013 || June 11 || Service (charging) || Product launch || Tesla announces the goal to deploy a battery swapping station in each of its existing supercharging stations, now to be renamed Tesla stations.<ref name="MyUser_CNN_November_29_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/21/autos/tesla-battery-swap/ |title=Tesla unveils 90-second battery-pack swap - Jun. 21, 2013 |newspaper=CNN |date=  |author= |accessdate= November 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || June 11 || Service (charging) || Product launch || Tesla announces the goal to deploy a battery swapping station in each of its existing supercharging stations, now to be renamed Tesla stations.<ref name="MyUser_CNN_November_29_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/21/autos/tesla-battery-swap/ |title=Tesla unveils 90-second battery-pack swap - Jun. 21, 2013 |newspaper=CNN |date=  |author= |accessdate= November 29, 2015}}</ref>

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This is a timeline of the American company Tesla, Inc., a car manufacturer, energy storage manufacturer, and solar power installer.

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Time period Key developments at Tesla
2003–2004 Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla. Initial prototype, and received series A funding in 2004, led by Elon Musk.
2004–2007 Eberhard was CEO leading the Tesla development. Tesla continually designs prototypes for the Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk was Chairman of the board, contributing to the car design and market strategy.
2008–2012 Elon Musk gains control of Tesla and injects millions of his fortune into the company, which narrowly escapes bankruptcy. These are the years where Tesla sells its Tesla Roadsters. Sales end when Tesla runs out of Lotus gliders by 2012. Tesla reaches 3,000 employees by the end of 2012.
2012–2015 Tesla starts selling the Model S and achieves rapidly growing sales. Tesla expands its network of Supercharger stations to cover the entire United States, and expands to other countries. Cumulative sales passed 90,000 units by October 2015. By 2015, Tesla introduces rudimentary self-driving software into its vehicles.

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Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of November 3, 2021.

Year "Tesla, Inc."
2005 3
2006 2
2007 6
2008 2
2009 7
2010 10
2011 4
2012 7
2013 16
2014 15
2015 23
2016 27
2017 201
2018 415
2019 467
2020 561


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Year Month and date Category Event type Details
2003 July 1 Automotives Company Tesla Motors is founded by technology entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California,[1] The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
2004 April Automotives Funding South African entrepreneur Elon Musk leads the company's $7.5 million Series A financing round and becomes chairman of the board.[1][2]
2004 May Automotives Team Jeffrey Brian Straubel joins Tesla as Chief Technical Officer.[3]
2005 February Automotives Funding Elon Musk injects $13 million more into the company in a Series B round during the development of the yet-announced Tesla Roadster.[2]
2005 July 11 Automotives Legal Tesla signs production contract for Lotus to manufacture complete cars for what would later become the Tesla Roadster.[4]
2006 May Automotives Funding Elon Musk and Technology Partners raise $40 million in a Series C round for Tesla.[2]
2006 July 19 Automotives Product launch Prototypes of Tesla's first car, the Roadster, are officially revealed to the public in Santa Monica, California, at a 350-person invitation-only event held in Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport.[5]
2007 August Automotives Leadership Martin Eberhard is asked by the board, led by Elon Musk, to step down as CEO. Eberhard takes the title of "President of Technology".[6]
2007 November Automotives Team Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur Ze'ev Drori becomes Tesla's CEO and President.[1]
2008 January Automotives Team Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning both leave the company.[7]
2008 March Automotives Product Tesla starts producing the Roadster.[1]
2008 June Automotives Product Tesla announces the Model S on June 30, with a starting price of $50,000.[8]
2008 August Team Tesla hires U.S. vehicle designer Franz von Holzhausen as its chief designer. He is involved in the design of the Tesla Model S.[9]
2008 October Team Musk succeeds Drori as CEO.[1] By then, in what he described as the "worst year of his life", he had divorced Justine Musk and has cumulatively injected $70 million of his money into Tesla.
2008 November Funding Tesla raises $40 million in a debt-financing round and narrowly escapes bankruptcy.[10]
2009 January Funding By this time, Tesla cumulates US$187 million in funding, having delivered 147 cars. Musk contribution cumulates US$70 million of his own money to the company.[11]
2009 May Automotives Company Tesla enters into a strategic partnership with Daimler AG, which acquires 10% equity stake in Tesla for $50 million.[12]
2009 June Funding Tesla takes a US$465 million loan from the United States Department of Energy. The company would repay its loan by May 2013.[13]
2009 August Financial Tesla announces having achieved overall corporate profitability for the month of July 2009.[14]
2010 June 29 Financial Tesla goes IPO at $17 per share.[15]
2010 June 30 Expansion Tesla announces Japan to be the first destination in Asia.[16]
2010 October Automotives Facility Tesla officially takes possession of the Tesla Factory site in Fremont, California and opens it.[17]
2012 February 9 Automotives Product launch Tesla unlocks the Model X SUV.[18]
2012 June 22 Automotives Product launch Tesla officially starts selling its Model S[19], a sedan intended for the mainstream public.[20]
2013 June 11 Service (charging) Product launch Tesla announces the goal to deploy a battery swapping station in each of its existing supercharging stations, now to be renamed Tesla stations.[21]
2013 October 2 Automotives Safety A Tesla Model S catches on fire after hitting debris on the highway.[22]
2014 March Automotives Legal New Jersey bans sales of the Tesla in the state, by finding that Tesla’s sales model violated regulations requiring that auto sales happen through a middleman franchisee.[23]
2014 June Company Tesla open-sources its patents.[24]
2014 September Automotives Product launch All Tesla cars start shipping with sensors and software to support Tesla Autopilot, a suite of advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) features that amounts to Level 2 vehicle automation.[25]
2015 February Automotives Competition Apple Inc. rumors to be working on a project, codenamed "Titan", to create an Apple-branded electric vehicle that resembles a minivan.[26]
2015 March 18 Legal Chris Christie signs a law reversing New Jersey's ban on Tesla selling its cars directly in New Jersey.[27]
2015 April Energy storage Product launch Tesla enters the energy storage industry by announcing the Tesla Powerwall, a set of high-capacity batteries that can be used for home energy storage.[28]
2015 September Automotives Competition Porsche unveils its new Mission E electric car concept at the International Auto Show in Frankfurt. It will be expected to reach the market by 2020.[29]
2015 September Automotives Product launch Tesla officially starts deliveries of the Model X.[30]
2015 October Automotives Product launch Tesla introduces autopilot for its Model S.[31] The software already starts auto-improving later the month.[32] Later, Tesla restricted autopilot mode to stop people from doing "crazy things".
2015 December Automotives Sales Global sales of the Tesla Model S achieve the 100,000 unit milestone.[33]
2016 April Automotives Product launch Tesla Unveils the Model 3. Aimed for mass market consumers so it is planned to have a more affordable price[34] of $35,000 (£24,423) and will have a range of at least 215 miles (346km) per charge. It has over 375,000 pre-orders[35] that exceeded expectations; the car is due to be delivered in late 2017.[36]
2016 November Photovoltaics Acquisition Tesla acquires SolarCity, in an all-stock US$2.6 billion deal, entering the photovoltaics market.[37]
2017 February Company Tesla Motors is renamed to Tesla Inc.[38]
2017 February Expansion Tesla begins operating in Portugal and Taiwan.[39]
2017 February Automotives Recognition Consumer Reports ranks Tesla as the top American car brand and the 8th among global carmakers.[40]
2019 April Automotives Product launch Tesla announces that all of its cars would include Autopilot software (defined as just Traffic-Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer (Beta)) as a standard feature moving forward.[41]
2020 January 10 Tesla reaches a market capitalization of US$86 billion, breaking the record for greatest valuation of any American automaker.[42]
2020 March Automotives Product launch Tesla begins deliveries of its fifth vehicle model, the Model Y crossover.[43]
2021 September Automotives Safety The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) orders Tesla to submit data pertaining to all sold US vehicles equipped with Autopilot.
2021 October Financial Tesla's market capitalization reaches US$1 trillion, the sixth company to do so in U.S. history.
2021 Literature Tim Higgins publishes Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century.

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References

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