Tesla Magazine

About Tesla / Elon Musk / Environment / Roadster / Unique Features / History

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May 2019 Volume 22

Contents

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Page 4-5 Introduction What is Tesla?

Elon Musk Childhood Education Business Tesla

Environment

How electric cars effect the environment

Page 2-3

Page 8-9 The Roadster

About the Roadster What to expect from the Roadster Car details

Page 10-11 Unique Features Auto Pilot Charging Car dimensions

History

The beginning of Tesla Timeline

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What is Tesla?

Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove to people that you don’t need to compromise to drive electric, and that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. Today, Tesla builds not only all-electric vehicles but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products. Tesla believes the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zeroemission future, the better.

Launched in 2008, the Roadster unveiled Tesla’s cutting-edge battery technology and electric powertrain. From there, Tesla designed the world’s first ever premium all-electric sedan from the ground up – Model S – which has become the best car in its class in every category. Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world’s expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0-60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend. In 2015, Tesla expanded its product line with Model X, the safest, quickest and most capable sport utility vehicle in history that holds 5-star safety ratings across every category from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Completing CEO Elon Musk’s “Secret Master Plan,” in 2016, Tesla introduced Model 3, a low-priced, high-volume electric vehicle that began production in 2017. Soon after, Tesla unveiled the safest, most comfortable truck ever – Tesla Semi – which is designed to save owners at least $200,000 over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.

This is just the beginning. With Tesla building its most affordable car yet, Tesla continues to make products accessible and affordable to more and more people, ultimately accelerating the advent of clean transport and clean energy production. Electric cars, batteries, and renewable energy generation and storage already exist independently, but when combined, they become even more powerful – that’s the future we want.

Model X Performance Model

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Elon Reeve Musk, born June 28 1971 is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He was born in South Africa and he holds a Canadian and U.S. citizenship. He is the founder, CEO and lead designer of SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, and is the cofounder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the list of The World’s Most Powerful People.

As of October 2018, he has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.

Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen’s University.

He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently cofounded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and later that year became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.

In May 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, he is CEO and lead designer. He helped fund Tesla in 2003, and became its CEO and product architect in 2004. In December 2016 Elon Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company. As you can see he is a Man who likes to take on a lot of work and is very business minded.

Effects on the Environment Electric cars are becoming more popular with their multiple advantages, one major one being its positive effect on the environment. Statistics show that current diesel and petrol cars cause 25% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s only going to get worse if a change isn’t made.

Tesla’s run on electrical powered engines, they have no exhaust emissions making them an environmentally friendly option. Another benefit to Tesla cars is that their batteries are recyclable, as after a battery has worn out it can be used elsewhere as it’ll still have approximately 70-80% of its original energy capacity.

With less emissions being produced the number of greenhouse gases are , preventing global warming. It also means that there will be a positive impact on our health. Better air quality will lead to less health problems, particularly at the roadsides and in urban areas where air quality can be worse.

Clean air is one of the most basic requirements of a healthy environment for us all to live. According to Public Health England, air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK. EVs are also quieter than petrol/diesel vehicles, which means less noise pollution. Overall electric cars have a positive impact on the environment.

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Tesla Roadster The Tesla Roadster is one of the most anticipated Tesla products, in 2015, Elon Musk suggested a new Roadster in 2019, capable of faster acceleration. A tweet by Elon Musk in December 2016 reconfirmed a second Roadster was in the works, The 2020 version of the Roadster was shown in a surprise moment at the end of the Tesla Semi event on November 16, 2017. Musk explained the concept as: “The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars. Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche.” The car will retail for upward of $200,000; test rides were given at the event for those who immediately pre-order the vehicle. Additional information followed after the teaser, such as the various world-record speeds Tesla said it will break.

The second generation Tesla Roadster has sleek features such as a removable glass roof. It was designed by Franz von Holzhausen, who formerly worked at Mazda and Volkswagen. The Roadster has a 2+2 seating arrangements, with smaller rear seats for two passengers.

250mph It’s claimed to have a top speed of 250 mph. If the production Roadster achieves these performance numbers, it will outperform the super-cars of 2017 and would set new production car records. Referring to the performance, Musk stated, “this is what we are achieving in the prototype”, he also indicated the performance may improve in the production model and that the stated numbers refer to the anticipated “base model”. The Roadster has three electric motors, one in front and two at the rear, allowing for all-wheel drive, and torque vectoring during cornering.

1.9sec The Roadster can reach 0 to 60 in a astounding 1.9 seconds. These stats would be record breaking as no previous cars had yet done better than 0–60 mph in 2.0 seconds. It will also be able to travel a quarter of a mile in 8.9 seconds.

Acceleration 0-60 Top Speed Wheel Torque Mile Range

1.9 Seconds 250mph 10,000Nm 620mil

Drive

All-Wheel Drive

Seats

Four

Price

£200,000

Length 5,052mm

Height 1,684mm

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Width 1,999mm

MODEL X

Unique Features

Autopilot

Tesla Autopilot provides semi-autonomous driver assist, which was first introduced in 2014. Tesla replaced its sensors and software in 2016. As of 2017, Autopilot included adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, emergency braking, Auto steer, Auto park, and a remote control function. Later updates include eight cameras and twelve ultrasonic sensors, in addition to forward-facing radar. Tesla expected to demonstrate full autonomy by the end of 2019. In April 2017 Musk predicted that in around two years drivers would be able to sleep in their vehicle while it drives itself.

Safest SUV

Charging

One of the biggest concerns for people thinking about purchasing a Tesla is being able to charge it on long journeys.

Charging one of the cars takes a lot longer than filling a car up with petrol, it takes over an hour to fulling charge which is something driver have to take into account before going on long journeys. In 2012 Tesla began building a network of 480-volt fast charging stations. As of December 2018, there are 1,375 Supercharger stations operated globally with 11,414 superchargers. The Supercharger is one of the ways Tesla have overcame that problem as it provides a direct current producing up to 120 kW of power, resulting in a full charge in around 75 minutes. Tesla cars can also recommend the fastest route for long-distance travel, taking into account possible charging delays.

The History of Tesla Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who lead the company for the first year.

The founders were influenced to start the company after seeing a gap in the market when General Motors recalled all of their EV1 electric cars in 2003. Elon Musk led the Series A round of investment in February 2004, joining Tesla’s board of directors as its chairman. Tesla’s primary goal was to commercialize electric vehicles, starting with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then moving into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts.

a lot more interest. From the beginning, Elon Musk consistently maintained that Tesla’s long-term strategic goal was to create affordable mass-market electric vehicles. Musk received the Global Green 2006 product design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk later led Tesla Motors’ Series B, US$13 million, investment round that added Valor Equity Partners to the funding team. Tesla’s third round included investment from prominent entrepreneurs including Google co-founders Sergey Brin & Larry Page.

As the years went on, they continued to produce more cars and rose to the top of electric car production

Elon Musk took an active role within the company and lead the Roadster product design at a detailed level, which was there first car to be produced in 2008. Both Elon Musk and the Roadster helped making Tesla more well known, over the years gaining more popularity. In 2012 Tesla released the Model S which was a huge success. This car was a big change compared to their first car, they went for a more modern aesthetic, and rather than focussing on it being sporty, they made something which can be used as a family car which gain

Timeline

2008

2012

2016

Original Roadster

Model S

Model X

2020

2020

2018

Tesla Semi

Model Y

Model 3

Future Roadster

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