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Tesla, an American electric vehicle and energy company, produces and sells electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage equipment.

Palo Alto, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, was founded by martin eberhard and Mark Tapenning in 2003. In 2004, Elon Musk entered the company and led the A round of financing.

The founder named the company "Tesla Motors" in memory of physicist nikola tesla.

Tesla's initial entrepreneurial team mainly came from Silicon Valley, and built cars with IT concepts, rather than the ideas of traditional automakers represented by Detroit. Therefore, Tesla's electric car is often seen as a story of a Silicon Valley kid against a Detroit giant.

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Tesla's famous T-shaped logo has been widely known in recent years, but it turns out that this simple logo is not only the acronym of the inventor Tesla, but also has a profound meaning behind it.

Tesla CEO Musk explained on Twitter that this stylized "T" is actually a hint of the company's products, saying that the T-shaped logo represents the cross section of the motor.

The main part of the letter T represents a part of the motor rotor, while the second line at the top represents a part of the peripheral stator.

In terms of logo design, Tesla and Space Exploration Technology also have similarities. Space exploration technology company is another bold adventure of Musk, which is dedicated to building rockets and sending payloads into space orbit. Musk said in a tweet that the deformed "X" in the logo of Space Exploration Technology Company represents the rocket launch trajectory.

The logo of Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies comes from the design company RO-Studio in New Jersey. Compared with Tesla and Space Exploration Technology, the logo of SolarCity, Musk's third company, is relatively simple. The picture of the yellow sun is accompanied by the company name, which is simple and clear.

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