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.
Tesla Motors' first production vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, is an all-electric sports car. Tesla is also currently working on a sedan, originally code-named the "WhiteStar" and now known as the Model S, which will be introduced as a 2010 model. It is being designed as an alternative to cars such as the BMW 5 Series and the Audi A6, with an estimated price of $60,000.
Tesla is headquartered in California, US, and also has facilities in Europe, and Asia.
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