Tesla, an American electric vehicle and energy company, produces and sells electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage equipment. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it was founded by Martin eberhard and Mark Tapenning on July 1 2003. The founder named the company "Tesla Motors" in memory of physicist nikola tesla. In 2004, elon musk joined the company and led the A round of financing. Tesla CEO elon musk said that Tesla strives to provide pure electric vehicles for every ordinary consumer within the scope of consumption power; Tesla's vision is to "accelerate the global transition to sustainable energy". 199 1 year, GM developed EV- 1 and put it on the market as the first mass-produced electric vehicle. This car is ugly, and its cruising range is 140 km. Due to the low input-output ratio, GM announced its abandonment in 2002 after producing more than 2,000 cars. This incident made GM take the blame, and a documentary called "Who killed the electric car" made this incident widely circulated. After that, Al Cocconi, an engineer who participated in the EV- 1 project, founded AC Propulsion, an electric vehicle company in California, and produced T-Zero, a lead-acid battery car for one person only.