Tesla. I mean, supporters of Elon Musk would like to tell one story and it's complicated. And so let me begin. There's two ways to look at what was going on at that period of time. 2002 period, 2001 period, the world, in particular, California is thinking about electric cars, but they don't seem like they're very viable at that point. And a gentleman named Martin Eberhardt is thinking that he would really liked to have an electric sports car. And there's no such thing on the market. He can't find one. He'd like to drive a Porsche, but he's worried about the gas, becoming concerned about the planet, these sorts of things. And so he starts kind of looking into electric cars and getting really excited about this idea. And he comes across another company called AC Propulsion, which is out of the LA area. It's kind of a garage that does work for automakers. The founder of that company helped out with General Motors EV1 project, which was an attempt years earlier to make a mainstream (10/40)
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