Tesla Motors, Inc. is a company dedicated to the manufacture and sale of purely electric vehicles and their components, and is the world's first company to use lithium-ion batteries in the manufacture of electric vehicles, founded in 2003 in Silicon Valley, California by Silicon Valley engineer and veteran car enthusiast Martin Eberhard and founder Elon Musk. Tesla electric cars have a unique shape, efficient acceleration, excellent handling, advanced technology, energy saving and other characteristics.