Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric vehicle manufacturing, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale and, through its acquisition of SolarCity, solar panel and solar roof tile manufacturing.Tesla Motors was founded in July 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.Tesla Model 3 was the world's best selling EV from 2018 to 2019 and had a maximum electric range of 500 km according to the EPA. It’s ahead of the competition in terms of powertrain technology, infotainment technology, and semi-autonomous driving features.It has been a long-standing theory that Tesla's logo is not just a fancy 'T', but that it actually represents the cross-section of an electric motor first designed by the company's namesake, physicist, and inventor Nikola Tesla.