Fact 1. Tesla Motors placed the largest touch screen and interface panel inside the vehicle, measuring 17 inches in size. The speedometer of the dashboard is also a digital screen.
Fact 2. The fact that Ilon Mask created Tesla Motors is a common misconception. In fact, the founders of Tesla Motors were Eric Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning.
Fact 3: Tesla released the S, 3 and X model and will eventually release the YV SUV. If you have not figured it out yet, it’s spelled like SEXY.
fact 4. The Tesla Model S was the first electric vehicle to receive the Motor Trend of the Year award.
Fact 5. The name Tesla came to Martin Eberhard when he was on a date with his wife at Disneyland.
Fact 6. It takes about 20-30 minutes to fully charge Tesla’s electric vehicles.
Fact 7. For a long time, an electric car could be charged for free at the Tesla charging station.
Fact 8. In addition to passenger cars, Tesla plans to produce minibuses and trucks in the future.
Fact 9. If, over time, the battery of your car starts to work worse, then you can easily replace it with a new one, though it will cost about $ 60. Tesla cars are designed in such a way that replacing the battery does not make any difficulties – in the model S, for example, it can be done in 90 seconds.
Fact 10. Ilon Mask earns $ 2.6 billion annually just selling Tesla cars! Just think about it is about 7.12 million dollars a day and 297 thousand dollars per hour.
Fact 11. The largest Tesla charging system in the world is located in Shanghai and allows simultaneously “refueling” one hundred cars.
Fact 12. Worldwide, a total of 1,032 Supercharger stations for 7320 recharging points are currently operating. They are located in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Fact 13. In addition to cars, Tesla produces a “powerwall” – an energy storage device that can be used both as a secondary power source and as a main for a small house. Charges this device from solar panels, which the company also produces.
Fact 14. In 2013, the Tesla Model S appeared with a fully glass roof. Then Mask hinted that future models could include solar panels.
Fact 15. The total weight of the X model is 3,070 kilograms, which makes the movement of the car across the Brooklyn Bridge illegal. The fact is that one of the symbols of New York, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, has a weight limit for cars of three tons.
Fact 16. Currently, Tesla is the second market capitalization by the US automaker, after General Motors.
Fact 17. Tesla has a “crazy” mode, which will accelerate the electric car to 100 km in just 3 seconds.
Fact 18. After the expansion of Gigafactory, owned by the company, will become the second largest building in the world. In addition, the plant will employ 6,500 people.
Fact 19. Gigafactory is capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year.
Fact 20. Currently Tesla has about 212 exhibition halls in the world. This is quite a bit compared to Ford, for example, which has about 4,000 representative offices.
Fact 21. The Tesla S model remembers where you used to drive, and you can adjust the suspension based on this data.
Fact 22. All that you will need to regularly replace in your Tesla are four wheels and two wiper blades.
