Elon Musk Explains Tesla Motors Electric Vehicle History

Tesla first gained widespread attention following their production of the Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric sports car. The company's second vehicle is the Model S, a fully electric luxury sedan, which was followed by the Model X, a crossover. Its next vehicle is the Model 3. Global Model S sales passed the 100,000 unit milestone in December 2015, three and a half years after its introduction. The Model S was the world's best selling plug-in electric vehicle in 2015. As of December 2015, the Model S ranks as the world's second best selling plug-in car in history after the Nissan Leaf. As of 31 March 2016, Tesla Motors has sold almost 125,000 electric cars worldwide since delivery of its first Tesla Roadster in 2008.

[jojodirtbike]

elon Musk didnt mention that Martin Eberhard started Tesla

[e.h.lipton]

Thank you, for not backing down. You and your team have suffered un imaginable scrutiny and negative pressures.

[oerantia]

Where can i see the final part of the video? Thx.

[vargast]

does anyone knows were does this video was originally publish ? I am using it for a school project

[jamesshanks]

One addition to the Tesla model 3 story, Tesla after getting the robots to work couldn’t build more than 1250 cars per production line a week. Musk wanted 5000 cars a week so having filled the factory with no more space available inside the factory he built a steel framed tent that used pipe as the structural member covered by a weather resistant cloth roughly 100 feet x 1000 feet in size to build more model 3 cars. The production line in the tent is 100% human powered.
Not a single robot and production went to 3000 cars a week from the tent production line. It’s still producing cars today.

[goodideas]

Musk didnt mention that Martin Eberhard actually started Tesla first and included Marc Tarpenning as partner - not a massive issue but would be nice to have mentioned that. Musk was a key and very early investor though and as I understand the early Chairman also. Martin Eberhard seemed to have a personality clash with Musk and his ambitions and better business mindset. Martin continually didnt respect Musk for what he was doing and calls him 'just an investor' which wasn't really correct. Musk was always much more than that and the fact that things went so much better with Musk in charge shows how the decision to stand down Martin from CEO was the right decision - bad for Martin but he would need to accept the truth of this. With Martin still in charge - Tesla would have died a long time ago...around 2008 ish or not much later...
Someone should do a documentary on this very topic - intriguing and interesting I think..

[jaymorpheus]

Musk: “I got tired of bumping into students that bought their admission into college to go binge drinking”... time to just do my thang

[ciceroaraujo]

great condoctor of human potential. we love you sir

[pritambissonauth]

'Necessity is the mother of invention', this is how Tesla solved its technical hurdles, I think its the DNA of this company. Do things that have never been done before and think differently. Well I wished Tesla would come out with a 'model T', as Ford did at the beginning of the previous century, practical without superfluous options and reliable. I am from a market segment which cannot afford the Tesla models S, 3 and X, but more from a Toyota Corolla market segment which need dependable products. Where I am from Mauritius, I do not need Auto Pilot, it will kill the joy of driving and my country is not that big as the US. A 100KWh battery with a single 150Kw AC motor on one axle only will suffice, but with Air Conditioning [tropical climate 15 to 35 degrees Celsius], it never snows. Tesla also innovated in the way it financed itself. Good to hear that 2 other car companies Daimler & Toyota helped.

[Bimmer_MD]

I think that I have that analog charge controller. I found it in a Pick A Part. All of the PCB's have AC Propulsion screen printed on them.

[RufftaMan]

An ad every couple of minutes.. really? wtf?

[adamselene]

Commodore Amiga was comparable to the EV1 in that people loved them and there was a vigil when Commodore went bankrupt - Dave Haynie - The Commodore Deathbed Vigil 1994.

[davidwilkie]

"An idea whose time has come", if not by serendipity then exhaustive Engineering on top.

Appreciation for great Engineering is not in either category of love or hate, it's not really an emotional thing. The derivation of Art, from the creative impulses of an Artisan, is a more comprehensive and complicated feeling.(?)

[vanchanchea]

Thank you, i like the best Tesla electric car new performance and hope its great success for you in the market

[frenchyalicea]

So with all the talk about the battery design etc, why do analyst's keep stating "they're nothing special...their panasonic batteries..anyone can do it."????

[danielhermanus]

Wait... Elon actually did do wheelies with the Tesla powered smart car in the parking lot??? 😂😂😂

[cioflincdalia]

I can belive that can you had think like that, this is amazing more than that .

[jmastaice]

buy a popcorn machine... guarantee every person will look forward to coming into your store.

[KrK-EST]

What the FU*K Google !?!
I have video adds every 2 to 5 minutes (not to mention the bottom midle add on the video or the adds on top of the "up next" list).
I understand 1 add for every 20 mins, but i had one just less than 1 minute from another !
Also in other vids i sometimes have forced youtube adds 3 at a row, and the actual video is shorter than the adds!

Stopp ffing with people and make a service that they want to see.
If you make a paid premiums then definetly add a way for the subscribers to mark the shows they like and would want to support (aka if a part of the moeny paid is paid for the content creators, only those who are chosen by a person get from that pool of money each month that the people has a subscription of).
Easy solution and people are ok with it.

This will make you more money, more money and abilities for the content creators and the viewers happy.

[superloose]

Why these guys are appreciated and liked is their honesty...
in this open warts and all reveal of panic, pain and suffering it’s the no bull shit attitude that’s part of this success.