Tesla Founder. Tesla, Inc. (TSLA), formerly known as Tesla Motors, has grown since its IPO a decade ago into one of the world's biggest producers of electric vehicles under the leadership of CEO Elon Musk. Being able to call oneself a "Tesla founder" is a privilege determined by a messy lawsuit and a story we covered In any case, Tarpenning is a founder of Tesla along with Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk, Ian.
Tesla Motors and co-founder Martin Eberhard announced an agreement over who can claim to be a founder of the company on Tesla founder Martin Eberhard on the road with his Tesla Roadster.
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Two other former Tesla executives, Michael Schwekutsch, and chief engineer Doug Field, have The filing lists Straubel and Andrew Stevenson, the former head of special projects at Tesla, as executive. In Mr Musk's opinion, there's a very small chance that humans will be. Several countries have attempted to sway the company toward building a factory on their territory.