Tesla, the electric vehicle giant, was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon Musk joined in 2004 as an investor. He later became a co-founder through a legal settlement. Musk ...

F ollowing its founding by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003, Tesla became the world’s leading electric vehicle brand in less than a decade. In the company’s early years ...

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Tesla Inc. was founded in 2003 as Tesla Motors by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. If you’ve been living on a deserted island or under a large rock the past 18 years, you may be surprised to ...

The company was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. The company is named after Nikola Tesla, a physicist and an electrical engineer. The AC induction motor technology was ...