US-based Tesla Motors first appeared in 2008 with an all-electric sports car based on the Lotus Elise, the Tesla Roadster. The brand sold more than 2,250 in 31 countries before taking it off sale in 2011, and while only a few made it to the UK, it was among the first electric cars to offer a usable range of up to 200 miles.
Today, however, the company is barely recognisable. It now employs more than 6,000 people worldwide and has delivered almost 75,000 all-electric cars since the introduction of its market-storming Model S in 2012.
It’s with those near-75,000 cars that Tesla owners have just clocked up over one billion full-electric miles – that’s the equivalent of 4,000 trips to the moon, or 40,000 orbits of the Earth. And Tesla…
