Every Tesla model, milestone, and record — in one place.

Company timeline

1. 2003 Tesla Motors incorporated

   Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning found Tesla Motors in San Carlos, California, naming the company after inventor Nikola Tesla.

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2. 2004 Elon Musk leads Series A funding

   Musk invests $6.5 million and joins as chairman of the board, later becoming CEO in 2008.

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3. 2008 Roadster deliveries begin

   Tesla's first production car, built on a Lotus Elise chassis, becomes the first highway-legal all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells.

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4. 2010 Tesla goes public

   Tesla's IPO on NASDAQ raises $226 million, the first American car maker IPO since Ford in 1956.

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6. 2012 Model S deliveries begin

   Tesla's first purpose-built electric sedan launches, later named Motor Trend's 2013 Car of the Year.

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7. 2014 Gigafactory Nevada groundbreaking

   Construction begins near Sparks, Nevada, on Tesla's first battery gigafactory, built with partner Panasonic.

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8. 2014 Autopilot hardware introduced

   Tesla equips Model S with its first driver-assistance hardware suite, though the software isn't enabled until the following year.

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9. 2015 Model X deliveries begin

   Tesla's first SUV ships with distinctive falcon-wing rear doors.

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10. 2015 Autopilot software enabled

    An over-the-air update activates highway autosteer and auto lane change on equipped Model S vehicles.

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11. 2016 Model 3 unveiled

    Tesla reveals its mass-market sedan to more than 200,000 reservation holders in the first week.

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12. 2016 Full Self-Driving hardware suite introduced

    Tesla begins shipping all new vehicles with the camera and compute hardware intended to eventually support full self-driving.

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13. 2017 Model 3 production begins

    The first Model 3 rolls off the line in Fremont, California, with deliveries starting later that month.

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14. 2019 Gigafactory Shanghai begins production

    Tesla's first factory outside the United States starts building Model 3 for the Chinese market within a year of groundbreaking.

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15. 2019 Cybertruck unveiled

    Tesla reveals its stainless-steel pickup concept, four years before deliveries begin.

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16. 2020 Model Y deliveries begin

    Tesla's compact SUV, sharing roughly three-quarters of its parts with the Model 3, reaches customers.

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17. 2020 Tesla joins the S&P 500

    Tesla is added to the index in December 2020, at the time the largest company ever added.

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18. 2020 Full Self-Driving Beta released

    A limited group of owners gains access to an expanded driver-assistance software branch, marketed as a beta.

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19. 2021 Model S Plaid deliveries begin

    The tri-motor Plaid variant launches with a manufacturer-quoted 0-60 mph time under 2 seconds.

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20. 2021 Headquarters moves to Austin

    Tesla relocates its corporate headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas.

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21. 2022 Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas open

    Tesla opens two new vehicle factories within weeks of each other: Grunheide, Germany, and Austin, Texas.

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22. 2022 Semi deliveries begin

    Tesla delivers its first Class 8 electric semi trucks to launch customer PepsiCo.

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23. 2023 Cybertruck deliveries begin

    The stainless-steel pickup ships to its first customers after being unveiled in 2019.

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24. 2023 Rival automakers adopt Tesla's charging connector

    Ford, GM, and other automakers announce plans to adopt Tesla's charging connector, later standardized as the North American Charging Standard (NACS).

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