Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in
Austin, Texas. It designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, stationary battery energy
storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products
and services. Incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors,
the company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February
2004 Elon Musk joined as the company's largest shareholder and in 2008 he was named CEO.
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