Tesla

Chapter One:  Overview & History  

Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003 by Marc Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who financed the company until the first round of funding. Both men played active roles in the company's early development prior to Elon Musk's involvement. Musk led the Series A round of investment in February 2004, joining Tesla's Board of Directors as its Chairman. Tesla's primary goal was to commercialize electric vehicles, starting with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then moving as rapidly as possible into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts.

Since the Model s went into production in 2012, there have been over 250,000 gasoline car explosions in the us alone. 400 people died as a result to this. In the same time there was only 3 tesla fires due to high speed chases. Tesla doesn't only help the environment by not polluting the air with gas, it is also a much safer car to drive.