Photos: Tesla Motors electric cars over the years
Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a quick ride in the new Tesla Motors electric roadster in July 2006.
(Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)A Tesla Roadster is on display at a showroom in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2008.
(Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)Workers assemble a Tesla Roadster at their showroom in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2008.
(Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, poses with a Tesla car in front of Nasdaq after the electric car maker’s initial public offering in June 2010 in New York.
(Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)Matt Wilson looks at a Telsa Model S beta prototype vehicle in Santa Monica in 2012.
(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)A Tesla Model S is displayed after winning the 2013 World Green Car of the Year award at the New York Auto Show in 2013.
(John Moore / Getty Images)A close-up view of a Tesla Model S.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)A detail of a Tesla Model S in 2014.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Michelle Chang wipes dust off a car in a Tesla Motors store in Pasadena on opening day in August 2014.
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)Elon Musk announces a dual motor version of Tesla’s Model S sedan, the P85D, at Tesla’s Hawthorne Airport facility in 2014.
(Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)Tesla announced a dual motor version of its Model S sedan, the P85D, that also has an optional adaptive cruise control feature, in 2014.
(Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)A Telsa car on the assembly line at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif.
(David Butow / For The Times)Tesla Model S electric car in 2009.
(Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)A 17-inch touch screen is the control center in the new Tesla Model S P85D. Its dual electric motors put out the equivalent of 691 horsepower. It’s priced at $104,500.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)The new Tesla Model S P85D produces extra power with the addition of a second electric motor putting out the equivalent of 691 horsepower. It’s priced at $104,500.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla Motors chief designer, talks about the doors on the Tesla Model X at media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in 2013.
(Paul Sancya / Associated Press)The Tesla Model X concept is on display during media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in 2013.
(Paul Sancya / Associated Press)