Driving Innovation

The electric car companys CTO explains whats going on under the hood.

Car companies have struggled to sell electric cars. Tesla Motors is the exception. Last year, the first full year of sales for its Model S luxury sedan, Tesla sold more than twice as many cars as either Nissan or GM did when they introduced their battery-powered vehicles, the Leaf and the Volt. Tesla did this even though its a startup with no dealer network, selling a car thats more than twice as expensive as the electric cars from the major automakers.