Tesla, an American electric vehicle and energy company, produces and sells electric vehicles, solar panels, and energy storage equipment. [1] Palo Alto, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA [2], was first co-founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon Musk entered the company in 2004 and led round A financing. [3-5] The founder named the company "Tesla Motors" in memory of physicist Nikola Tesla. [6] Tesla's first car product was Roadster released in 2008 as a two-door sports car. [7] In 2012, Tesla released its second car product-Model S, a four-door pure electric luxury coupe [8]; the third car product is Model X, a luxury pure electric SUV [9], Delivery began in September 2015. [10] Tesla's next car is the Model 3, which was first released in March 2016 [11] and will be delivered at the end of 2017. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said [12] that Tesla strives to provide every ordinary consumer with pure electric vehicles within its consumption capacity; Tesla's vision is to ''accelerate the global transition to sustainable energy. The transformation 』.