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| 2006 || July 19 || Automotives || Product launch || Prototypes of Tesla's first car, the Roadster, are officially revealed to the public in {{w|Santa Monica, California}}, at a 350-person invitation-only event held in {{w|Barker Hangar}} at Santa Monica Airport.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lambert |first1=Fred |title=Tesla launched the Roadster exactly 10 years ago and came out of stealth mode - Here's a trip down memory lane [Gallery] |url=https://electrek.co/2016/07/19/tesla-roadster-debut-10-years-ago-gallery/ |access-date=3 November 2021 |work=Electrek |date=19 July 2016}}</ref> | | 2006 || July 19 || Automotives || Product launch || Prototypes of Tesla's first car, the Roadster, are officially revealed to the public in {{w|Santa Monica, California}}, at a 350-person invitation-only event held in {{w|Barker Hangar}} at Santa Monica Airport.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lambert |first1=Fred |title=Tesla launched the Roadster exactly 10 years ago and came out of stealth mode - Here's a trip down memory lane [Gallery] |url=https://electrek.co/2016/07/19/tesla-roadster-debut-10-years-ago-gallery/ |access-date=3 November 2021 |work=Electrek |date=19 July 2016}}</ref> | ||
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+ | | 2007 || August || Automotives || Leadership || {{w|Martin Eberhard}} is asked by the board, led by Elon Musk, to step down as CEO. Eberhard takes the title of "President of Technology".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kanellos |first1=Michael |title=Tesla CEO steps down as possible delays loom |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-ceo-steps-down-as-possible-delays-loom/ |access-date=3 November 2021 |work=CNET |language=en}}</ref> | ||
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| 2007 || November || Automotives || Team || Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur {{w|Ze'ev Drori}} becomes Tesla's CEO and President.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_November_8_2015c"/> | | 2007 || November || Automotives || Team || Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur {{w|Ze'ev Drori}} becomes Tesla's CEO and President.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_November_8_2015c"/> | ||
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+ | | 2008 || January || Automotives || Team || {{w|Martin Eberhard}} and {{w|Marc Tarpenning}} both leave the company.<ref>{{cite web |title=Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning {{!}} American entrepreneurs |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Eberhard-and-Marc-Tarpenning |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=3 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
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| 2008 || March || Automotives || Product || Tesla starts producing the Roadster.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_November_8_2015c"/> | | 2008 || March || Automotives || Product || Tesla starts producing the Roadster.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_November_8_2015c"/> | ||
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− | | 2008 || June || Automotives || Product ||Tesla announces the [[wikipedia:Model S|Model S]] on June 30, with a starting price of $50,000.<ref name="MyUser_Treehugger.com_November_28_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.treehugger.com/cars/teslas-next-electric-car-to-be-called-model-s-new-factory-to-open-in-north-california.html |title=Tesla's Next Electric Car to be Called "Model S", New Factory to Open in North California : TreeHugger |newspaper=Treehugger.com |date= |author= |accessdate= November 28, 2015}}</ref> | + | | 2008 || June || Automotives || Product || Tesla announces the [[wikipedia:Model S|Model S]] on June 30, with a starting price of $50,000.<ref name="MyUser_Treehugger.com_November_28_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.treehugger.com/cars/teslas-next-electric-car-to-be-called-model-s-new-factory-to-open-in-north-california.html |title=Tesla's Next Electric Car to be Called "Model S", New Factory to Open in North California : TreeHugger |newspaper=Treehugger.com |date= |author= |accessdate= November 28, 2015}}</ref> |
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| 2008 || August || || Team || Tesla hires U.S. vehicle designer {{w|Franz von Holzhausen}} as its chief designer. He is involved in the design of the [[wikipedia:Tesla Model S|Tesla Model S]].<ref name="AUTOBLOG1">{{cite web |url=http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/04/franz-von-holzhausen-to-tesla-motors/ |title=Breaking: Franz von Holzhausen to Tesla Motors as design director! |newspaper=Autoblog.com |date= |author= |accessdate= November 12, 2015}}</ref> | | 2008 || August || || Team || Tesla hires U.S. vehicle designer {{w|Franz von Holzhausen}} as its chief designer. He is involved in the design of the [[wikipedia:Tesla Model S|Tesla Model S]].<ref name="AUTOBLOG1">{{cite web |url=http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/04/franz-von-holzhausen-to-tesla-motors/ |title=Breaking: Franz von Holzhausen to Tesla Motors as design director! |newspaper=Autoblog.com |date= |author= |accessdate= November 12, 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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Big picture
Time period | Key developments at Tesla |
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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. |
Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Category | Event type | Details | |
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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 | J. B. 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 | May | Automotives | Company | Tesla enters into a strategic partnership with Daimler AG, which acquires 10% equity stake in Tesla for $50 million.[11] | |
2009 | June | Funding | Tesla takes a $465 million loan from the United States Department of Energy. It repays its loan by May 2013.[12] | ||
2010 | June 29 | Financial | Tesla goes IPO at $17 per share.[13] | ||
2010 | June 30 | Expansion | Tesla announces Japan to be the first destination in Asia.[14] | ||
2010 | October | Automotives | Facility | Tesla officially takes possession of the Tesla Factory site in Fremont, CA and opens it.[15] | |
2012 | February 9 | Automotives | Product launch | Tesla unlocks the Model X SUV.[16] | |
2012 | June 22 | Automotives | Product launch | Tesla officially starts selling its Model S.[17] | |
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.[18] | |
2013 | October 2 | Automotives | Safety | A Tesla Model S catches on fire after hitting debris on the highway.[19] | |
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.[20] | |
2014 | June | Company | Tesla open-sources its patents.[21] | ||
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.[22] | |
2015 | March 18 | Legal | Chris Christie signs a law reversing New Jersey's ban on Tesla selling its cars directly in New Jersey.[23] | ||
2015 | April | Energy storage | Product launch | Tesla announces the Tesla Powerwall - a set of high-capacity batteries that can be used for home energy storage.[24] | |
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.[25] | |
2015 | September | Automotives | Product launch | Tesla officially starts deliveries of the Model X.[26] | |
2015 | October | Automotives | Product launch | Tesla introduces autopilot for its Model S.[27] The software already starts auto-improving later the month.[28] 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.[29] | |
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[30] 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[31] that exceeded expectations; the car is due to be delivered in late 2017.[32] | |
2017 | February | Company | Tesla Motors is renamed to Tesla Inc.[33] | ||
2017 | February | Expansion | Tesla begins operating in Portugal and Taiwan.[34] | ||
2017 | February | Automotives | Recognition | Consumer Reports ranks Tesla as the top American car brand and the 8th among global carmakers.[35] | |
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. |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Tesla: The Origin Story - Business Insider". Businessinsider.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Tesla Motors". Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ↑ Vance, Ashlee (May 19, 2015). Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future (First ed.). New York, NY. pp. 151–155. ISBN 978-0-06-230123-9. OCLC 881436803.
On July 1, 2003, Eberhard and Tarpenning incorporated their new company. " "The third desk was occupied a few months later by Ian Wright..." "...the three men went hunting for some venture capital funding in January 2004." "With an investment of $6.5 million, Musk had become the largest shareholder of Tesla and the chairman of the company." "Straubel stopped by the office for a meeting, and was hired right away in May 2004...
- ↑ "Supply Agreement for Products and Services - Lotus Cars Ltd. and Tesla Motors Inc. - Sample Contracts and Business Forms". Contracts.onecle.com. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ↑ Lambert, Fred (19 July 2016). "Tesla launched the Roadster exactly 10 years ago and came out of stealth mode - Here's a trip down memory lane [Gallery]". Electrek. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ↑ Kanellos, Michael. "Tesla CEO steps down as possible delays loom". CNET. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ↑ "Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning | American entrepreneurs". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ↑ "Tesla's Next Electric Car to be Called "Model S", New Factory to Open in North California : TreeHugger". Treehugger.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Breaking: Franz von Holzhausen to Tesla Motors as design director!". Autoblog.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Adds $40 Million to Its Coffers". Wired.com. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ↑ "Daimler buys 10% stake in Tesla, will supply parts and engineering". Autoblog.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Repays $465 Million Loan from Federal Program". Cnbc.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Prices IPO At $17 Per Share". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Announces Japan Will be First Destination in Asia". tesla.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ↑ "Tesla Motors Opens Tesla Factory - Home of the Model S (NASDAQ:TSLA)". Ir.teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Unveils Model X". Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "2012 Tesla Model S Deliveries Start Today, EPA Figures Official". Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla unveils 90-second battery-pack swap - Jun. 21, 2013". CNN. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla Says Car Fire Started in Battery". The New York Times. 2013-10-02. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ↑ "New Jersey Bans Tesla to Ensure Buying a Car Will Always Suck". Wired.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "All Our Patent Are Belong To You". Teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Apple Gears Up to Challenge Tesla in Electric Cars". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ↑ "In major reversal, New Jersey allows Tesla to sell its cars directly, without dealerships". Theverge.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla's Big Announcement Is PowerWall: A Battery For Your Home". Popsci.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Porsche's New Mission E Electric Car: 'Better Than A Tesla' - Fortune". Fortune.com. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
- ↑ "Green Car Congress: Tesla CEO Musk launches Model X electric SUV: "safest SUV ever"". Greencarcongress.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Your Autopilot has arrived". Teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Tesla's self-driving car is already getting smarter - Quartz". Qz.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ↑ Jeff Cobb (2015-12-15). "Tesla Model S Crossed 100,000 Sales Milestone This Month". HybridCars.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
- ↑ BBC. "Tesla Model 3". BBC News. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
- ↑ the guardian. "Model 3 pre-orders". theguardian News. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
- ↑ Ars tecnica. "Delivery second half 2017". Ars tecnica. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Tesla Motors, Inc. is now officially Tesla, Inc.". TechCrunch. February 1, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Tesla’s electric cars could be cruising down Indian streets this summer, Elon Musk says
- ↑ Bartlett, Jeff S. (February 28, 2017). "Which Car Brands Make the Best Vehicles?". Consumer Reports. Retrieved March 3, 2017.