The Tesla Roadster, the company's first vehicle, is the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production EV with a range greater than 200 miles (320 km) per charge. The base model accelerates 0–60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds and, according to Tesla Motor's environmental analysis, is twice as energy-efficient as the Toyota Prius. The company had produced its 1,000th Roadster as of January 2010. The company has delivered Roadsters in at least 25 countries as of May 2010. Tesla began producing right-hand-drive Roadsters in early 2010 for the UK and Ireland markets, and the company is widely anticipated to begin right-hand-drive deliveries in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Tesla is currently developing the Model S, an all-electric family sedan. Tesla launched the car March 26, 2009 with an anticipated base price of US$57,400 (or US$49,900 after a US federal tax credit). The Model S will have three battery pack options for a range of up to 300 miles per charge. As of March 2010, Tesla has taken about 2000 reservations for the Model S and expects to begin delivering cars to customers in 2012. Tesla currently employs more than 500 people and is aggressively recruiting employees for positions in the headquarters in Palo Alto, California; at its European headquarters in Windsor, UK; and at an increasing number of sales facilities throughout North America and Europe. Tesla will build the Model S in 2012 at an assembly line in Fremont, Calif., the former NUMMI plant operated as a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. Tesla purchased a stake in the site in May 2010 for US$42 million.
Tesla Motors is named for electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. The Tesla Roadster uses an AC motor descended directly from Tesla's original 1882 design, which he said came to him in a feverish hallucination due to exhaustion when he was working as an engineer and inventor in Hungary.
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