The Tesla Model S is celebrating its 10th birthday, having been launched on June 22, 2012 at a delivery event in the company's Fremont, California, factory.
Tesla was incorporated in 2003 and sold its first Roadster sports car in 2008, but it didn't really become the company we know today until a few years later.
It wasn't until 2012 that the automaker's factory in Fremont, California, kicked off production of the Model S as its first volume model. The initial cars available for order included a base Model S with a 40 kWh battery pack rated for 160 miles of range for $57,400, but the first ones off the line were the high-end Signature.and a 416 hp rear-wheel-drive system at a starting price of $87,900.
"Two or three years later, I get: ‘Congratulations, your serial number is 00001. Congratulations, your serial number is 00073,’" Calacanis recounted to Insider in 2017.
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