No other electric car comes close

A decade later, Tesla’s stock is trading at $959.74/share, the company has grown to about 48 000 employees and its influence on the global auto industry is unprecedented.

A Tesla Model S

3) Car of the Year

In December 2012, Motor Trend named the Model S its 2013 Car of the Year.

5) Musk’s iPhone moment

When Tesla unveiled the Model 3 sedan in March 2016, customers lined up in a way the world had grown accustomed to seeing consumers queue up for iPhones.

SolarCity was struggling financially and Tesla had just unveiled the Model 3, but Musk pitched the acquisition as a “no brainer” and announced a new tiled-roof product to sell investors on the acquisition.

A Tesla Model S

9) Shanghai Showing

Tesla scored a major win in the midst of all the 2018 drama by becoming the first American automaker to be allowed to build a manufacturing plant in China without a local joint-venture partner.