Still smiled at initially, Tesla has become an integral part of the car market. Since its foundation, however, the electric car maker has had a turbulent story.
• First Electric car 2008
• Model 3 best -selling electric car in the world
• Share course has multiplied since the start of the stock market
The visionary entrepreneur is closely linked to the success of the electric car manufacturer from California Elon Musk. In 2004, this joined Tesla Motors for six million US dollars at the – still small – company and became CEO in 2008. Since then, Musk has contributed to the fact that the Tesla share has massively multiplied since it started in 2010.
Elon Musk’s takeover
Although large parts of the success of Tesla Elon Musk are attributed, the company was not founded by the multimilliarist. In July 2003, Martin Eberhard founded the company together with Marc Tarpenning and named it according to the inventor Nikola Tesla. At this point, the two entrepreneurs were convinced that electric cars would play an important role in the future. It wasn’t until a year later Elon Musk. However, he can officially call himself a co -founder of Tesla by an agreement. The two original founders have not been in the company since 2007 and 2008.
Tesla’s first electric car
In March 2008, Tesla’s first electric car went into production with the Tesla Roadster. The vehicle consisted of the body of a classic sports car and showed a range of 350 kilometers and almost 300 hp – groundbreaking at that time. The drive battery consisted of lithium-ion batteries, which are also used in notebooks.
This was followed by the IPO on June 29, 2010 at an issue price of $ 17 per Tesla share-a value that was still classified as high at that time. Tesla was the first US car manufacturer since Ford in 1953 to take the step to the stock exchange.
With the Model S in 2012, the world’s first limousine with pure electric drive came onto the market – with even greater reach and even better performance than the Tesla Roadster. Drivers of a Tesla model were also able to shop their cars early on at the superchargers, which Tesla also introduced in 2012. Of the superchargers, there are now more than 67,300 locations worldwide at around 7,100 locations. Up to the Model 3, three other electric cars were developed and brought onto the market, but in question Model 3 was tough.
Avert several bankruptcy
With the production of the Model 3, enormous difficulties came to the company. These were so serious that Tesla was said to have only been from bankruptcy for a few weeks because too much money was burned – even though Model 3 mouseed at the world’s best -selling electric car at the same time. Unlike the other models, the Model 3 was no longer in the luxury segment, but for the price of a mid -range car.
But that was not the first Fast bankruptcy with which Tesla had to fight. Just a few years after the foundation, the company was about to bankrupt in 2008 and was particularly dependent on external donors. In May 2009, Mercedes-Benz (then Daimler) entered Tesla with $ 50 million. The value of the investment today would be in the billion dollar sector if ex-CEO Dieter Zetsche would not have sold the participation in 2014 for 600 million euros.
In addition to electric cars, Tesla also uses it
But the Tesla super-Gau failed to materialize and the Tesla share experienced an unexpected high. At times, the Californian electric car manufacturer was more valuable than the three German auto -giant VW, Daimler and BMW together. In contrast to the three just mentioned, Tesla recognized early on that for high quantities in electric cars there is no way around your own cell production, which also seems to be superior not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively that of the competition. For the batteries for Tesla vehicles, there are hardly any quality problems or difficulties from suppliers – circumstances from which other automobile manufacturers are far away. In general, supply chain problems at Tesla are less common because a large part of the components are produced directly on site. In the meantime, the electric car manufacturer has built several so -called gigafactories in Nevada, Shanghai, Texas, Brandenburg and Mexico (under construction). In order to save raw materials, the company’s batteries have implemented a recycling system. A total of 92 percent of the raw materials from old batteries can be reused.
Tesla also announced a new entry-level model under the project name “Redwood” for less than $ 25,000 (market launch originally planned for 2026)-but now doubts about the implementation of the plans for a cheap model. In addition, with the announced Robotaxi platform, Tesla is pursuing a long-term vision of autonomous mobility: In addition, the company has a solar division in its own house, manufactures its own home memory and works under high pressure on Optimus, a humanoid robot, from which you hope for a billion dollar business.
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