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  1. Dec 31, 2017 · The New York Times. A Tesla is an electric car. Just about everybody knows that. But it is less widely known that the car was named for Nikola Tesla, an electrical engineer who was once...

  2. Dec 11, 2022 · “Tesla” isn’t just a cool-sounding name picked randomly. It’s a nod to Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer. Nikola Tesla had many innovations, but he’s best known for inventing the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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  3. Oct 20, 2018 · Tesla’s name was actually thought up in Disneyland’s Blue Bayou restaurant, when Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard pitched it to his then girlfriend, and now wife, Carolyn, according to...

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  4. Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer and clean energy company founded in San Carlos, California in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The company is named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

  5. Nov 29, 2022 · Musk opens it by saying that they didn’t come up with the Tesla name, nor did they own the name at all. In fact, the name itself already existed, and it originally came from a guy in Sacramento. He had come up with the name and owned it already, and Musk was naturally determined to get the name.

  6. What if the name honored Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American genius that invented the AC induction motor, which the new company planned on using?

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  8. Oct 20, 2018 · Tesla’s name was actually thought up in Disneyland’s Blue Bayou restaurant, when Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard pitched it to his then girlfriend, and now wife, Carolyn, according to...

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