Tesla
- 2003: Tesla was founded in California to make electric vehicles (EVs).
- 2006: Prototype Tesla Roadsters,
based on the Lotus Elise,
debuted at the San Francisco motor show.
- 2008-2012: The Tesla Roadster sports car, with 185kW motor, a top speed of 212km/hr, brought excitement to the electric car (EV) -- at a price, us$110K. The claimed range is 300-400km on a 3.5 hour charge (70amps @ 240V) of the 53 kW hr battery.
- 2009 March 26 Tesla unveiled prototypes of the Model S sedan EV (see 2012).
- 2010: RHD Roadsters for the UK.
- 2010 November: Toyota showed an electric RAV4 EV, in cooperation with Tesla, at the Los Angeles Auto Show
- 2011: The Tesla Roadster 2.5 arrived in .au at au$206K+orc.
- 2008-2012: The Tesla Roadster sports car, with 185kW motor, a top speed of 212km/hr, brought excitement to the electric car (EV) -- at a price, us$110K. The claimed range is 300-400km on a 3.5 hour charge (70amps @ 240V) of the 53 kW hr battery.
- 2012: The Tesla Model S sedan due for delivery.
- 2013, March 31: Tesla announced that it had turned a 1st quarter profit.
- 2015, September 29: launched its Model X electric SUV.
- 2017, July: Deliveries of the Model 3 began in the US, priced from us$35,000, but ...
- 2019 March: A base, "standard range" (220mi) Model 3 was finally announced at us$35,000. "Long range" (325mi) us$43K. All sales went on-line (Tesla later backed away from that move).
2019, 15 March: Tesla revealed details of the Model Y electric, mid-size SUV, from us$39K (early 2021), top models available late 2020, 230 to 300 mile range.
2020 January 22:
The share market value of Tesla exceeded us$100 billion,
greater than that of Volkswagen
(Toyota is valued at us$230 billion).
Tesla delivered 367,500 cars in 2019
againsts VW's ~11 million.
2020 July 2: Tesla us$209.47 billion, more than
Toyota (~us$205bn)!
2021 October 25:
The share market value (SMV) of Tesla passed us$1 trillion
after Hertz ordered 100,000 Model 3s.
Tesla produced 500,000 cars in 2020.
(The SMV was us$801B 20/12/2023.)
2025: Elon Musk became involved in Donald Trump's election campaign (2024) and then in the administration's 'DoGE' (Department of Government 'Efficiency'. This did not go down well with many potential Tesla buyers nor with investors and sales of Teslas slumped in many markets. By June 2025 there had been a major falling out between Musk and Trump.