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Tesla Inc. By Mohammad Al Simadi Tesla Inc. is an American company has been founded by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Trepanning in July 2003 under the name Tesla Motors. The American energy and automotive firm is based in California as well as its specialize in manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing. In 2016, Tesla ranked as the second world’s to selling plug-in with 76,243 unit sold, fist world’s top selling plugin in that time was BYD Inc. with 101,183 unit sold. However, Tesla’s revenues ranked first with 6.35 billion USD while BYD achieved 3.88 billion USD in 2016. Moreover, Tesla sold 1 billion USD worth cars in the world’s largest market for electric vehicles which is China, Tesla reached an agreement with the Chinese government to build a factory in Shanghai. In 2019, Tesla delivered 367,500 cars, more than 50% of 2018. From 2017 to 2018 Tesla U.S. vehicles sales rose by 280% from 48,000 to 182,400. Tesla is keeping soaring since the beginning of 2020; Tesla’s shares price has been more than doubled over the past three months. On 29th of Jan, Tesla has reached its highest level ever to trade at 650 USD per share, its share is up more than 45% in 2020 continued to surge on the back of its decision of its entrance into China and boosted by quarter four figures firm’s expectations as it has beaten the expectations of Wall Street.