Reviewed by Somer Anderson Fact checked by Michael Rosenston Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) is often synonymous with its CEO, Elon Musk, ...

Tesla, the electric vehicle giant, was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon Musk joined in 2004 as an ...

F ollowing its founding by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003, Tesla became the world’s leading electric vehicle brand in less than a decade. In the company’s early years ...

The company was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. The company is named after Nikola Tesla, a physicist and an electrical engineer. The AC induction motor technology was ...

In 2003, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright, Elon Musk and JB Straubel got the green light from AC Propulsion to introduce the T-Zero although it was just a prototype at the time.