was originally founded as Tesla Motors in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, honouring the famed inventor Nikola Tesla. Come February 2004, Musk spearheaded the initial round of ...

Elon Musk visits the construction site of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images Musk’s involvement with Tesla began in 2004, when he invested $6.35 million in the ...