By the end of the 1990s, the electric vehicle didn't seem like it had much of a future at all... But soon, a new player would come along that would literally change everything.
Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by engineers and entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Elon Musk joined the company as the largest shareholder one year later.
This EV startup would redefine how the world perceived electric cars, accelerating the shift from combustion-powered cars to full EVs like no other company.
Its initial model, the Roadster, launched in 2008, used a modified Lotus Elise chassis and was an expensive two-seater toy. But it proved that EVs could not only have enough range to quell.
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