TESLA / USA

TESLA /  AUSTIN / USA  ( 2003 ff )

Tesla, Inc.  is a  US car manufacturer based in Austin / Texas, which produces electric cars as well as other products like battery systems,  photovoltaic systems etc. The company was founded in 2003 by M. Eberhard and M. Tarpenning, who left in 2008. In  2004  Elon Musk became chairman of the supervisory board, later chief executive officer (CEO), and has been a defining figure at Tesla ever since. As of October 2023, Tesla has several production sites in the United States, as well as a final assembly plant in the Netherlands (since 2013) and a so-called “Gigafactory” in the People's Republic of China (since 2019) and Germany (since 2022).

Have I gone crazy and am now writing about a car brand that has only been around for a good 20 years?

No, it all started with this beautiful enameled emblem that I bought at a flea market. 

And I thought I had made the discovery of the year...

 At first, I hoped it might be an emblem from a very early TESLA model, until I saw this stained glass window in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, with exactly the same emblem:

 

Now it was clear that this is not a car emblem, but rather the emblem of a Czech electrical company that also manufactured radios:

 

 

 

So last not least the real TESLA hood emblem, quite simple designed, inspired by the official sign, the symbol T. It stands for the physical unit of  magnetic flux density.

Not very pretty, but modern...

 

 If you want to see a real beautiful vintage electric car emblem, please click here !

 For real vintage car emblems see older posts or top right ( list of car makers ).

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