Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley automobile startup company focusing on the production of high performance, consumer-oriented battery electric vehicles. The firm was incorporated in July, 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California.
Tesla Motors is named after electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. The Tesla Roadster's motor is a three-phase Tesla AC induction motor.




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