Tesla Model Y electric car

The vehicle shown is a Tesla Model Y, which is currently one of the best-selling electric vehicles globally. The Model Y is built on a shared platform with the Tesla Model 3 and serves as a compact luxury crossover SUV.

Tesla’s production is highly globalized. For the European market, vehicles are typically manufactured at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany or imported from Gigafactory Shanghai in China. Other units are produced in the United States at factories in Fremont, California, and Austin, Texas.

Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk joining as a lead investor early on. The brand has remained an independent, publicly traded American company that operates without a traditional parent corporation, focusing exclusively on sustainable energy and electric propulsion.