Tesla chief Elon Musk has been in the limelight over the past few days for a variety of reasons, either using solar power or in a bid for the social networking service, Twitter, to be the milestone of a deal to mine bitcoin. But this time Musk also made headlines for replying to a Bengaluru man.
Vaibhav Cicinty, CEO of Bengaluru and founder of GrowthSchool, tweeted on Thursday,Elon Musk Tesla was not the founder. He got it.”
This led to a series of comment replies.
Elon Musk, however, replied to the tweet saying, “Not even close to that. It was a Shell Corp with no employees, no IP, no design, no prototypes, virtually nothing but AC Propulsion.” There was a (business) plan to commercialize the T.-Zero car, which was offered to me by JB Straubel, not Eberhard. Even the name ‘Tesla Motors’ was owned by others!”
Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn’t need to compromise to drive electric – that electric vehicles were better, faster and easier to drive than gasoline cars. can be more fun.
Elon Musk, co-founder of X.com, invested $6.5 million in February 2004 and became the largest shareholder of the company and its chairman. Musk has been the CEO of Tesla since 2008.
Currently, Tesla not only manufactures all-electric vehicles, but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products. Tesla vehicles are produced at its factories in Fremont, California and the Gigafactory in Shanghai.
In addition, Tesla is now one of the world’s most valuable companies and retains the title of the world’s most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of over $1 trillion.