Elon Musk - Tesla Motors CEO
Elon co-founded Tesla and continues to oversee the company's product
strategy -- including the design, engineering and manufacturing of more and
more affordable electric vehicles for mainstream consumers. As Chairman and
Product Architect, he helped design the ground-breaking Tesla Roadster, for
which he won an Index and a Global Green award, the latter presented by
Mikhail Gorbachev. In October 2008, he took on the additional responsibility
of CEO, overseeing daily operations as the company was ramping up Roadster
production and accelerating the development of its second vehicle, the Model
S.
Elon launched Tesla's regional sales and service centers across two
continents and in May 2009 secured a $50 million investment and strategic
partnership from Germany's Daimler. He spearheaded a successful cost-down
program that enabled Tesla to achieve profitability in July 2009. He guides
development of the Model S, the all-electric family sedan that will be
produced in at the Tesla Factory in Northern California. The Tesla Factory
will employ approximately 1,000 workers.
Tesla Will Unveil Electric SUV in 2011 and a $30K Electric Car in 2015 - Talk is cheap, and Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is using it to make some
pretty bold claims about the future of the company. At the Cleantech
Investor Summit in Palm Springs, California, yesterday, Musk told a crowd
that Tesla would be unveiling their own electric SUV—the Model X—later this
year. As a bit of icing on the talk cake, Musk also said that they were on
track to sell a $30,000 Tesla vehicle within four years.
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