Tesla
United States · 2003
The company that made electric performance a default, then dared the rest of the industry to catch the software.
The drivetrain is the product. The body is a battery enclosure that happens to look like a car.
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Tesla Model S
Plaid 2021–
The Model S Plaid is the moment electric cars stopped asking for permission. Three motors, a carbon centre seat, and acceleration that is less a statistic than a physiological…
1 variant
Tesla Cybertruck
CT 2023–
A stainless-steel wedge that escaped a 1980s paperback and then went on sale. The Cyberbeast is the three-motor version, which is to say the one that treats a pickup as a hypercar…
1 variant