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|2013||October||Product||On October 2, a Tesla [[Model S]] catches on fire after hitting debris on the highway.<ref name="MyUser_The_New_York_Times_November_5_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/highway-fire-of-tesla-model-s-included-its-lithium-battery/?ref=automobiles&_r=0&mtrref=undefined&gwh=58428F3B5F8606E38B88C9B64FE29A2F&gwt=pay |title=Tesla Says Car Fire Started in Battery |newspaper=The New York Times | class="dateline ", datetime="2013-10-02" |author= |accessdate= November 5, 2015}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:42, 28 November 2015
This is a timeline of the American company Tesla Motors, a car company.
Big Picture
| Time period | Key developments at Tesla |
|---|---|
| 2003-2004 | pre-Elon Musk days where Tesla aims to commercialize electric vehicles. |
| 2004-2007 | Tesla continually designs prototypes for the Tesla Roadster |
| 2008-2012 | Elon Musk gains control of Tesla and injects millions of his fortune into the company, which narrowly escapes bankruptcy. These are the years where Tesla sells its Tesla Roadsters. Sales end when Tesla runs out of Lotus gliders by 2012. Tesla reaches 3,000 employees by the end of 2012. |
| 2012-2015 | Tesla starts selling the Model S and achieves rapidly-growing sales. Tesla expands its network of Supercharger stations to cover the entire United States, and expands to other countries. Cumulative sales passed 90,000 units by October 2015. By 2015, Tesla introduces rudimentary self-driving software into its vehicles. |
Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | July | Company | Tesla is founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[1] |
| 2004 | April | Funding | Elon Musk leads the company's $7.5 million Series A financing round and becomes chairman of the board.[1][2] |
| 2005 | February | Funding | Elon Musk injects $13 million more into the company in a Series B round during the development of the yet-announced Tesla Roadster. |
| 2005 | July | Company | Tesla signs production contract for Lotus to manufacture complete cars for what would later become the Tesla Roadster. |
| 2006 | May | Funding | Elon Musk and Technology Partners raise $40 million in a Series C round for Tesla.[2] |
| 2007 | November | Team | Ze'ev Drori becomes CEO and President.[1] |
| 2008 | March | Product | Tesla starts producing the Roadster.[1] |
| 2008 | June | Product | Tesla announces the Model S on June 30, with a starting price of $50,000. [3] |
| 2008 | August | Team | Tesla hires Franz von Holzhausen as its chief designer. He is involved in the design of the Tesla Model S.[4] |
| 2008 | October | Team | Musk succeeds Drori as CEO.[1] By then, in what he described as the "worst year of his life", he had divorced Justine Musk and has cumulatively injected $70 million of his money into Tesla. |
| 2008 | December | Funding | Tesla raises $40 million in a debt-financing round and narrowly escapes bankruptcy. |
| 2009 | May | Company | Tesla enters into a strategic partnership with Daimler AG, which acquires 10% equity stake in Tesla for $50 million.[5] |
| 2009 | June | Funding | Tesla takes a $465 million loan from the United States Department of Energy. It repays its loan by May 2013.[6] |
| 2010 | June | Funding | Tesla goes IPO at $17 per share.[7] |
| 2010 | October | Company | Tesla officially takes possession of the Tesla Factory site in Fremont, CA and opens it.[8] |
| 2012 | February | Product | On February 9, Tesla unlocks the Model X SUV. [9] |
| 2012 | June | Product | On June 22, Tesla officially starts selling its Model S. [10] |
| 2013 | June | Product | Tesla announces the goal to deploy a battery swapping station in each of its existing supercharging stations, now to be renamed Tesla stations. [11] |
| 2013 | October | Product | On October 2, a Tesla Model S catches on fire after hitting debris on the highway.[12] |
| 2014 | March | Legal | New Jersey bans sales of the Tesla in the state, by finding that Tesla’s sales model violated regulations requiring that auto sales happen through a middleman franchisee. [13] |
| 2014 | June | Company | Tesla open-sources its patents.[14] |
| 2015 | March | Legal | On March 18, Chris Christie signs a law reversing New Jersey's ban on Tesla selling its cars directly in New Jersey. [15] |
| 2015 | April | Product | Tesla announces the Tesla Powerwall - a set of high-capacity batteries that can be used for home energy storage.[16] |
| 2015 | September | Product | Tesla officially starts deliveries of the Model X. [17] |
| 2015 | October | Product | Tesla introduces autopilot for its Model S.[18] The software already starts self-improving later in the month.[19] Later, Tesla restricted autopilot mode to stop people from doing "crazy things". |
References
- ^ a b c d e "Tesla: The Origin Story - Business Insider". Businessinsider.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ^ a b "Tesla Motors". Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla's Next Electric Car to be Called "Model S", New Factory to Open in North California : TreeHugger". Treehugger.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ "Breaking: Franz von Holzhausen to Tesla Motors as design director!". Autoblog.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Daimler buys 10% stake in Tesla, will supply parts and engineering". Autoblog.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla Repays $465 Million Loan from Federal Program". Cnbc.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla Prices IPO At $17 Per Share". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla Motors Opens Tesla Factory - Home of the Model S (NASDAQ:TSLA)". Ir.teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla Unveils Model X". Https:. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "2012 Tesla Model S Deliveries Start Today, EPA Figures Official". Https:. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
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{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|class=ignored (help) - ^ "New Jersey Bans Tesla to Ensure Buying a Car Will Always Suck". Wired.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ "All Our Patent Are Belong To You". Teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ^ "In major reversal, New Jersey allows Tesla to sell its cars directly, without dealerships". Theverge.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla's Big Announcement Is PowerWall: A Battery For Your Home". Popsci.com. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Green Car Congress: Tesla CEO Musk launches Model X electric SUV: "safest SUV ever"". Greencarcongress.com. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ "Your Autopilot has arrived". Teslamotors.com. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
- ^ "Tesla's self-driving car is already getting smarter - Quartz". Qz.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.