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Record 023 · Transport · 2012

12.23.T

Tesla Model S

Tesla

Battery-electric full-size car

Proved EVs could be fast, long-range status objects — not golf carts.

The first premium electric sedan that people lusted after.

17-inch portrait screen, OTA updates, Supercharger network, and Ludicrous mode rewrote luxury-car software expectations.

Filed notes

  • OTA vehicle software
  • Large touchscreen interior
  • Company-owned charging network

Units. Hundreds of thousands of Model S; Tesla later millions of vehicles

SIC

3711

Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies

NAICS

336110

Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

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