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He was a man of strong convictions, had influential friends and enemies, made a lot of money, and could be angered by ignorant investors. So far, this description sounds suspiciously like Elon Musk, but it also fits the inventor and futurist for whom the name of Musk’s electric car and power company, Tesla: Nikola Tesla. The electrical inventor, born in 1856 in what was then Austria (now Croatia), emigrated to the United States at the age of 30, made a name for himself, and made money from AC machines, but failed financially due to the wireless power and data transmission and died penniless in New York in 1943.
How Tesla Motors became Tesla
Nikola Tesla could have been forgotten despite his early contributions. But in the 1960s, the scientific unit of magnetic flux density got its name, which at least made its name immortal for the time being. And so tech entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning referred to him when they founded the company in California in 2003, which today is largely equated with Elon Musk: Tesla, at the time with the addition of Motors, which was phased out in 2017.
Almost by the way, the launch of electric cars at the time should have gone on the market with a completely different name, because the Tesla Motors brand had already secured another person in 1994. By the time the negotiations began, Musk had already entered the startup took over the naming rights and initially found granite, as he said in late 2019. But with tenacity and kindness, the future CEO of Tesla got the owner to speak and then sold it for $ 75,000, so that looks cheap today.
Tesla, the “kindest geek”?
And so Nikola Tesla could finally become the namesake for the company, which, under Musk’s leadership, has meanwhile made billions in sales of globally important electric cars and energy products. American cinema is entitled to a movie about the electric pioneer before Elon Musk has now been underwritten by IFC Films, as industry services reported in early April.
The documentary drama of the same name (with which Tesla is now available as a surname, as a unit, as a company, and as a movie title) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in the US. USA In early 2020 and was recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among others. According to a review in The Verge, he doesn’t portray Nikola Tesla as the “kindest geek” like other biographies. But even in the film he was portrayed as largely disinterested by people, but still deeply humanistic. According to IFC, Tesla with Ethan Hawk in the lead role will hit US screens in August.
Similarity between Tesla and Musk
Initially it was unclear if the film would also be shown in European cinemas. But interest in electric cars and other products from Tesla (the company) and its CEO is also increasing in the old continent. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if there were enough viewers to document Tesla’s namesake, that the Tesla boss is obviously no different in some ways.
