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Corporate strategy

Tesla's main objective is to increase the number and variety of electric vehicles available to Power consumers in three ways: Tesla sells its own vehicles in a growing number of businesses owned and online showrooms, but sells patented electrical components of the propulsion system to other automakers so they can get their own electric vehicles to customers before, and serves as a catalyst and a positive example for other automakers, which shows that there is consumer demand accumulated vehicles that are fun to drive and socially responsible. General Motors then-Vice President Robert Lutz said in 2007 that the Tesla Roadster was inspired to push GM to develop the Chevrolet Volt, a prototype hybrid sedan is aimed at reversing years of declining market share and massive financial losses for U.S. automaker. On August 1 2009 edition of The New Yorker, Lutz was quoted as saying: "All the geniuses here at General Motors said the lithium-ion technology is 10 years away, and Toyota agreed with us – and boom, Tesla arrives. So I said, 'Why are some tiny start of California, in charge of the kids who know nothing about the car business, you can do this, and we can not? "That was the lever that helped break the log jam."

The Tesla Roadster has a price base of $ 109,000 U.S., which drew criticism in the media that the company is catering exclusively to wealthy consumers. Tesla aims to sell electric vehicles to mainstream consumers in more affordable pricesut Tesla purpose directed his first production vehicles in "early adopters" so the company could improve the technology before cascading down to less expensive vehicles. (Rear car of the company, the sedan S model, is expected to begin production for model year 2012 with a base price of $ 57,400, about half of the Roadster.) This approach is a strategy well known business in Silicon Valley and the global technology industry, where prices for cell phones, laptops and flat screen televisions dropped dramatically each product cycle. However, this approach has been rare in the automotive world, where the dominant business model has been a production mass in optimized assembly plants to build hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year with comparatively low price tag. According to a post on the blog of Tesla CEO, President Product Architect and Elon Musk, "The new technologies in any field is to optimize some versions before reaching the mass market and is competing in this event 150 years and billions of dollars spent on gasoline cars. "

History and funding

The corporate headquarters in San Carlos, CA

Tesla Motors was incorporated in Delaware on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning follow the mass production of AC Propulsion TZero prototype electric vehicles. With a small amount of personal funding, hired Tesla's first office in Menlo Park, California and went on to develop a business plan. Quickly added Ian Wright for the team and in January 2004 began to seek funding to develop an electric sports car production. They arranged to borrow the AC Propulsion TZero its prototype to show potential investors the performance possible with an electric car. In April, they found a leading investor Elon Musk and closed a round of Series A equity financing of $ 7.5 million. The round included Compass Technology Partners and Alliances at SDL, as well as many private investors. Musk, a businessman Born in South Africa, became president of the Board Tesla. Musk later led a series of Tesla Motors, B, $ 13 million investment round added value Equity Partners for equipment financing. Musk co-led by the third, $ 40 million round in May 2006 along with technology partners. Tesla's third round includes investment of prominent businessmen, including Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former eBay president Jeff Skoll, Nick Pritzker Hyatt heir and added to venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Capricorn Management and the Bay Area Equity Fund managed by JPMorgan Chase. The fourth round in May 2007 added other $ 45 million investment bringing the total to more than USD $ 105 million through private funding.

In August 2007, Martin Eberhard was replaced by interim CEO Michael Marks. In December 2007, Ze'ev Drori became the permanent CEO and chairman of Tesla Motors. In January 2008, Tesla Motors fired several key people who have been involved from the start after a performance review by the new CEO. According to Musk, Tesla forced to downsize the company by 10 percent to lower their burn rate, which was out of control in 2007.

The fifth round in February 2008 added another $ 40 million. Musk, who was president of PayPal before it was bought by eBay, had contributed $ 70 million of his own money to this company time.

In October 2008, musk made Ze'ev Drori as CEO. Drori will become vice president. He left the company in December.

In January 2009, Tesla had raised USD 187 million U.S. dollars and delivered 147 cars.

On May 19, 2009, Germany's Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes, took holding less than 10 percent of Tesla's $ 50 million. The investment deepened the relationship between the inventor of the automobile and the newest member of the global auto industry. As part of the collaboration, Professor Herbert Kohler, Vice President of E-Drive and mobility in the future of Daimler AG, took a seat on board Tesla's management. In July, Daimler announced that Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments bought 40 percent of Daimler's interest in Tesla.

In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive $ 465 million in interest-bearing loans from the Department of Energy U.S.. The funding, part of a U.S. program $ 8 billion for advanced vehicle technologies (advanced manufacturing technology vehicles Loan Program), engineering and production support Model S sedan, and the development of powertrain technology that Tesla plans to sell to other automakers. Loans low interest rates are not related to the "rescue" funds that GM and Chrysler have been, or are related to the economic stimulus package of 2009. The loan program of the Department of Energy was created in 2007 during the administration of George Bush on options for more fuel-efficient vehicles to U.S. consumers and to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

The company announced in early August 2009 that he had reached the overall profitability of the company in July 2009. The company said it earned about $ 1 million on revenues of $ 20 million. Profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the Roadster, 2010, the second iteration of award-winning sports Tesla. Tesla, which like all income automakers records when goods are delivered, shipped a record 109 vehicles in July and reported an increase in purchases of new Roadster.

In September 2009, Tesla has announced a round of $ 82,500,000 to accelerate the commercial expansion of Tesla before the Model S. Daimler participated in the round to maintain participation in the capital of your initial investment. A new investor Fjord Capital Partners, under the leadership of the founders of Michael Obermayer (a former senior partner and director of McKinsey & Company, Inc), Arild Nerdrum and Xavier de La Rochefoucauld. Fjord is a specialized body of European private equity investing in clean energy sector worldwide. Fjord invests growth capital in companies in renewable and low carbon projects.

On January 29, 2010, Tesla Motors filed a Form S-1 with the Securities U.S. And Exchange Commission, as a preliminary prospectus stating its intention to file a public offering underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank Securities.

Models

Tesla Roadster

Main article: Tesla Roadster

Tesla Roadster

production Tesla Motors' first car, the Tesla Roadster is an all-electric sports car. Tesla announced in January 2010 it had produced its 1,000 th and had Roadster cars delivered in 43 states and 21 countries. According to test results from a laboratory certified by the EPA, the car has a range of 244 miles (393 km) per charge (With a standard cycle of 45 percent EPA highway driving and 55 percent city driving). Tesla recognized that if the car is driven too fast in the typical Race Car "benchmarks," efficiency is not optimized and the car, like its predecessors internal combustion engine will not reach 244 miles per charge – and conversely, if conducted in a more moderate range can achieve significantly more than 244 miles per charge. On October 27, 2009, the joint Roadster a new world record for customer Simon Hackett took the whole segment of 313 miles per year of Global Green Challenge Australia on a single charge. The company and the status of respondents that the Tesla Roadster accelerates from zero to 60 mph (97 km / h) in under four seconds and reaches a top speed of 125 mph (201 km / h) (limited for safety). The cost Feed the vehicle is estimated at U.S. $ 0.02 per mile. The car's base price is U.S. $ 109,000, and describes numerous exemptions from state taxes, and the appropriation of $ 7.500 federal tax.

Prototypes were presented to the public in July 2006, and the Tesla Roadster was featured on the cover Time in December 2006 as the recipient of the magazine "Best Inventions 2006ransportation invention" award. The demand was high for the first "Signature One Hundred" all fully equipped Roadsters, which sold out in less than three weeks, and the second one hundred sold in October 2007. The first production model was delivered to Elon Musk, the then Chairman of the Board in February 2008, and overall production began on March 17, 2008.

In July 2009, Tesla began production of 2010-model year Roadster – the first major update of the product from Tesla began production in 2008. Changes in the 2010-year model vehicle include:

An updated interior and shifter button, including the interior EXECUTIVE exposed carbon fiber and premium leather, and clear-coat fiber accents carbon body.

Blockade, wrapped in leather glove button.

A video display mounted in the center to monitor data real-time, including the estimated range, power recovery, and the number of barrels of oil saved. This screen should be visible to the driver and passenger.

Adjustable suspension as in tune with the configuration option of sport and comfort.

More heating powerful and immediate, ventilation and air conditioning.

more efficient motor and hand-wound stator. The new engine produces more kilowatts per ampere in other words, more power – the predecessor.

A set of sound-deadening measures to dramatically reduce noise, vibration and harshness. For example, engineers added pellets to a member of the chassis side rail. These pellets increase by 5,000 percent during the heating cycle adhesive to eliminate vibration.

Because the all-electric Roadster, no sound of engine starting, so the driver is greeted with a carillon. The instrument panel, and shows RPM and speed, it also indicates how the amplifiers are being used instantly. There is also a special screen to control battery left indicating the charge state also turns on when the car is loaded. The Roadster is also one of the nearly 1,000 vehicles featured in the upcoming PlayStation 3 racing simulation game, Gran Turismo 5.

In January 2010, Tesla started producing its first Roadster RHD for the UK and Ireland. The 2010 Right-hand drive model year Roadster includes a set of unique materials to reduce noise and improved sound system. The Roadster starts at 86 950 and costs about of 1.5p per mile, compared to as much as 32p per mile for gasoline sports car, based on current gasoline prices in the UK, including VAT. Roadster drivers do not have to pay the London congestion charge, saving up to about 1,700 a year. You can park for free and without time limits in several districts London, to receive four free hours of charging in some parking lots, and are exempt from taxes next Exhibition Hall 950.

Tesla Sport Roadster

Main article: Tesla Roadster

Tesla began taking orders in January 2009 for the Sport Roadster, a sports performance-based further in the Roadster.

Tesla says the Roadster Sport accelerates from 060 mph (97 km / h) in 3.7 seconds, compared to 3.9 seconds for the standard Roadster. Price Sport Roadster starts at $ 128,500 in the United States and 112,000 (excluding VAT) in Europe. Deliveries began in July 2009. The Sport Roadster is the first derivative of the specialties Tesla patented powertrain.

The sport has been critically acclaimed by some critics of U.S. car brokers, including Engineering Editor Kim Reynolds of Latino, whose magazine is the first to independently confirm the Sport Roadster reported 0-60 mph time of 3.70 seconds. (Latino recorded 0-60 mph in 3.70 seconds, which registered a quarter-mile test sec@102.6 at 12.6 mph.) Acceleration Reynolds called "impressive" and said the car confirms Tesla as a real car. … Tesla is the first manufacturer to break the barrier of EV legitimacy in a century. "

According to Tesla's marketing materials in shops and third-party reporting media, sport is:

special firmware that twists more torque from the engine, in particular 20-50 mph

adjustable suspension can be adjusted to the preference of the driver, including a sport or comfort setting.

Different badging Sports inside and outside the car, including special insignia leather seats.

Lightweight, black rims.

Ultra High Performance Yokohama tires.

Scotty Pollacheck, a high performance driver Killacycle, was driving a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport at the Wayland Invitational Drag Race in Portland, Oregon in July 2009. He did a quarter mile (~ 400 m) in dry conditions in 12,643 seconds, setting a new record in the National Electric Drag Racing Association between SP/A3 vehicle class. The Sport Roadster is increasingly popular in endurance racing circuit, according to an article in Wired Magazine in August 2009 and a series of clips YouTube.

Model S

Main article: Tesla Model S

Tesla Model S

Tesla has built a prototype and is driving working in production engineering model S sedan, originally codenamed "White Star", which the company plans to start producing in late 2011. Tesla plans to build an assembly plant in California to build the Tesla Model S has already taken more than 1,500 bookings for the model S.

Designed as an alternative to cars like the BMW 5 Series and Audi A6, with an expected base price of U.S. $ 57.400 (or U.S. $ 49,900 after tax rebates federal). Taking into account the low cost of electricity compared to gasoline and the lack of routine oil changes and other maintenance tasks, Tesla says the cost S model is similar to vehicles with internal combustion engine with a price tag of about $ 35.000. Tesla is planning to have three package options batteries, allowing customers to select from 160 miles (260 km) 230 miles (370 km) or 300 miles (480 km) per charge before having to recharge with a conventional 120 volt, 240 volt, or about 480 volts.

On March 26, 2009, Tesla unveiled the S model design to the public by introducing a concept version of the car at the Tesla design studio in Hawthorne, California This car includes a touch screen panel and wireless Internet capabilities remote programming. It has seating for five adults (plus two rear-facing child seats for children) and has a time of 060 mph (97 km / h) of 5.5 seconds. The S was presented at The Late Show with David Letterman in April 2009. Because the car without using gasoline and produces no emissions rate exhaust pipe was allowed on the Late Show in September and was the first car fully operational on stage.

Smart city car

In late 2007, Tesla began working with Germany's Daimler AG in the components of the propulsion system of a car's electric version of the German two-seater Smart City. Tesla is producing battery packs and chargers initial fleet of 1,000 Smarts EV. Daimler has not released details on the price of the vehicle or the calendar. The two companies announced they were working together on the Smart in January 2009.

Minivan, Crossover Utility van fleet

Tesla Motors also announced in June 2009, along with loans from the Department of Energy, which plans to build family-sized electric minivan, SUV and electric shocks fleet of electric vans for local governments.

Facilities

Tesla Motors headquarters is in San Carlos, California, where much the development of the Tesla Roadster is produced.

United States

Tesla was founded in San Carlos, California, a town in the region known as Silicon Valley. Tesla opened its first retail store in West Los Angeles, California, in April 2008. The company opened its second retail store in Menlo Park, California, in July 2008. The company opened a showroom display at the Chelsea District of New York art in July 2009. It also opened a shop in Seattle in July 2009. Tesla opened a store in Dania Beach, Florida, in December 2009. It plans to open more stores in Chicago and Washington DC.

Tesla announced in August , 2009 that it planned to move its headquarters and development center to build a propulsion system at 3500 Deer Creek Road in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California Tesla said it would finance the project in part through the $ 100 million low-interest federal loans. The installation, 369.000 square foot facility on a plot of 23 acres previously occupied by Agilent Technologies, will serve as headquarters Tesla consolidated with operations gradually moving from its current location about 10 miles north of San Carlos. The installation of the propulsion system components are produced Tesla electric vehicle and other manufacturers cars, including Germany's Daimler, which uses packet Tesla battery chargers and power the next version of its Smart city car. About 350 employees are based on the Stanford site, initially, potentially increasing to 650. Stanford Research Park is also home to Facebook, Hewlett Packard, Xerox PARC and other companies in Silicon Valley.

Using $ 365 million in federal low-interest loans, Tesla plans to build an assembly plant in model S California with an annual production fully ramped-up of 20,000 cars. Tesla has not announced a specific location, though unconfirmed press reports have been concentrated in southern California. In the summer of 2009, many speculative media reports suggested that Tesla could occupy the NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California, General Motors and Toyota have indicated that they intend to abandon. Tesla has said it will develop a brownfield site preference in the current government's industrial property federal approval of candidates for interest-bearing loans of the advanced technology vehicle manufacturing program.

Europe

Tesla's European headquarters in Windsor, UK. The chassis of the Roadster is being assembled by contract manufacturing division of Lotus Cars in Hethel, England. The Roadster has a chassis with a 100 percent unique dimensions, and the car is longer and wider and has a lower threshold of the doors of the Lotus Elise. The two cars have an overlap of the pieces of less than 6 percent.

In June 2009, Tesla opened its first store in the exhibition hall in Europe in the central district London's Knightsbridge. In September 2009, Tesla opened its first store in continental Europe, showroom in downtown Munich. Tesla opened a shop in Monaco in November 2009 with a ribbon cutting ceremony by CEO Elon Musk and the car enthusiast Prince Albert II.

Regional sales and service centers

Tesla Motors dealer in the Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California

Tesla has the following regional sales and service centers:

Menlo Park, California;

West Los Angeles, California;

Seattle, Washington;

Dania Beach, Florida;

Chicago, Illinois

London, UK;

Munich, Germany, and

Monaco.

Tesla opens the door to your screen in 511 dealerships W. 25th St. New York's Chelsea Art District in July 2009 and in Boulder, Colorado in October 2009. The company says it plans to open at the following locations:

Washington, DC

Toronto, Ontario

Marin County, California

San Diego, California

Milan, Italy

Paris, France

Copenhagen Denmark

Tesla operates stores owned by the company. Tesla showrooms include Wi-Fi, beverages and snacks, coffee and couches. Potential customers can test-drive vehicles with a vendor. Company executives say the model showrooms after retailers such as Apple and Starbucks.

Tesla recommends that customers bring in their car for inspection and firmware updates every year or every 12,000 miles (19,000 km). Tesla operates mobile squads of service for customers who do not live near regional sales and service centers. There is minimal maintenance required of an electric vehicle. Because there is no internal combustion engine, there is no routine oil changes. brake maintenance is minor due to regenerative braking. Transmission, brakes, changes oil and cooling system is required about every five to seven years or as needed.

Partners

Tesla uses several suppliers and foreign partners. Although the Roadster is an American car according to your vehicle identification number, such as production cars virtually everything use parts of the world.

Tesla panels carbon fiber body was produced in France by the French supplier Sotira. The panels are sent to England, where contracts Tesla with Lotus to build a single chassis in Hethel, UK cars are shipped to Menlo Park, California, where workers install all items are the intellectual property of the cars. The battery is assembled in San Carlos, California, using battery cells Asia. The gearbox single speed is built by Michigan-based supplier Borg Warner Inc.

When the company started in 2003, Tesla licensed AC Propulsion Reducing load ™ patent, which integrates electronic charge on the investor in a way that reduces mass and complexity. Shortly after the founding of the company, convinced Elon Musk JB Straubel Tesla to join and ultimately lead the development of Tesla propulsion system far beyond what the company initially licensed AC Propulsion. The company no longer employs any of AC Propulsion original intellectual property.

Daimler

Since late 2007, Daimler and Tesla Motors began working closely together to integrate Tesla lithium-ion battery packs and charging electronics in the first 1,000 units of Daimler smart electric car. The two companies are expected to continue to work, including working together in the Tesla Model S sedan The collaboration is not expected to result in marked cars or selling Mercedes cars at dealerships Tesla, or vice versa.

On May 19, 2009, Germany's Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes, acquired a less than 10 percent of Tesla's $ 50 million, according to unconfirmed press reports. The investment deepened the relationship between the inventor of the automobile and the newest member of the global auto industry. As part of the collaboration, Professor Herbert Kohler, vice president of the unit E and mobility in the future of Daimler AG, is a seat on board of directors Tesla.

On July 13, 2009, Daimler AG, sold 40 percent of its May acquisition of Aabar Investments PJSC. Aabar is an investment company controlled by the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), which is wholly owned by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. (In March 2009, Aabar acquired a 9 per cent of Daimler 1.95 million euros).

Claims

On April 14, 2008, Tesla Motors filed a lawsuit against Fisker Automotive, Henrik Fisker, claiming that "stole design ideas and confidential information related to the design of hybrid and electric cars "And was using that information to build the Fisker Karma, which was announced at the International North American Auto Show in January 2008. Tesla Fisker Coachbuild was hired to design the Whitestar sedan but decided against the design as it was considered "poor" by the president Elon Musk Tesla. November 3, 2008, Fisker Automotive Inc. issued a press release stating that an arbitrator has issued an interim award found in favor of Fisker Automotive, Inc. and against Tesla Motors Inc. on all claims. Also in March 2008, Magna International sued claiming that Tesla was never paid for services provided. Tesla contracted Magna to help design a 2-speed transmission for the Roadster. The Magna-designed transmission is not in use for the current model.

The foundation of the company and can rightly be called "founder" was the subject of a lawsuit filed May 2009 and later fell after a settlement. On May 26, 2009, Eberhard filed a lawsuit in San Mateo County, California against Tesla and Elon Musk (Chairman and CEO of Tesla) for libel, defamation and breach of contract. Musk wrote a long blog post that included the original source documents, including e-mails between senior executives and other devices Eberhard show that was dismissed unanimously by the full board of directors Tesla. On July 29, 2009, a judge in San Mateo County, California, the High Court overruled a claim by former CEO Eberhard, who asked to be declared one of the two founders of the company. Tesla said in a statement that the decision is "consistent with Tesla's belief in a team of founders, including the company CEO and Elon Musk product architect and chief technology officer JB Straubel, that were fundamental to the creation of Tesla from the start. "In early August, Eberhard withdrew the case and the parties reached a final solution of 21 September. Some provisions are confidential, but the agreement includes a provision that the parties consider Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk, JB Straubel, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Wright to five co-founders.

Remember

In May 2009, Tesla issued a safety recall for 345 Roadster manufactured before April 22, 2009. Tesla sent technicians to customers' homes to tighten the screws back, interior hub flange. Using common verbiage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and said customers Tesla without this adjustment, the driver could lose control of the car. The problem originated in the Lotus assembly line, where the Roadster is built. Lotus also recalled Some Lotus Elise and Exige vehicles for the same reason. Tesla reminded customers that millions of cars are recovered each year.

Board of directors

Elon Musk – Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO and Tesla product architect, former President of Paypal, founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, Chairman of the Board, SolarCity

Steve Jurvetson – Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Ira Ehrenpreis – General Partner of Technology Partners

Antonio J. Thanks – CEO and President of the Investment Committee Valor Equity Partners

Director of Finance, Corporate Secretary and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration at Cypress – Brad W. Buss Semiconductor Corp.

Kimbal Musk – CEO of Media, Inc., Elon Musk's brother

Herbert Kohler – Vice President of E-Drive and mobility in the future of Daimler

Larry W. Sonsini – outside consultants and not members of the board of directors of Tesla, Chairman, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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