特斯拉公司主管早在2008年就讨论过上市问题，但是由于过去一年半不景气的金融环境阻碍了上市计划。
Tesla executives have talked about going public as early as 2008, but the poor financial environment over the past year and a half had derailed those plans.
特斯拉汽车和SpaceX 这两家科技公司的创始人正在将电动汽车推向大众市场，并使人类能够在其它行星上生活。
The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and enabling humans to live on other planets.
这个公司成立于七年前，并在2008年就开始销售它的纯电动特斯拉跑车。
The company was founded seven years ago, and it started selling its all-electric Tesla Roadster in 2008.
重达52千克（115磅），特斯拉跑车公司的小型三相诱导式发动机甚至还没有一个西瓜大。
Weighing in at 52kg (115lb), the Tesla Roadster's tiny three-phase induction motor is no bigger than a watermelon.
在距离BetterPlace总部西面仅45秒车程的地方就是特斯拉汽车公司。
Just a 45-second drive west of Better Place headquarters is Tesla Motors.
相反地，特斯拉跑车公司只需要动用一个传动设备——那就是三相诱导式发动机的灵活性。
By contrast, the Tesla Roadster USES just one gear-such is the flexibility of its three-phase induction motor.
并且，跟进入电动汽车市场的来自底特律和外国的公司不同，特斯拉在生产上会有一些劣势。
And unlike the Detroit and foreign companies entering the EV market, Tesla will have some manufacturing disadvantages.
硅谷的小公司特斯拉汽车公司，想出一种方法来延长电池动力车的行驶里程。
Tesla Motors, a small Silicon Valley company, has come up with a way to extend the range of a battery-powered car.
特斯拉汽车公司初次登陆纳斯达克股票市场就成功了.
Tesla Motors’ debut on the NASDAQ stockmarket was a success.
特斯拉具有强大的象征意义，因为它是第一个让人们相信，完全围绕电动汽车的商业模式是可行的公司。
Tesla has huge symbolic significance because it is the first company to make people believe a business model solely around electric vehicles is possible.
近期的毕业生如今有在IBM、亚马逊和特斯拉等企业工作的，还有人开公司自主创业。
Recent graduates are now working at companies including IBM, Amazon, and Tesla, as well as starting their own firms.
支付109000美元，位于加利福尼亚圣卡洛斯的特斯拉汽车公司就会卖给你一辆时尚的敞篷跑车。
Tesla Motors, a firm based in San Carlos, California, will sell you a nifty open-top sports job for $109,000.
特斯拉的发言人周三表示，该公司从未描述了自动驾驶仪作为自主技术或自动驾驶汽车。
Tesla spokeswoman said on Wednesday the company had never described Autopilot as an autonomous technology or self-driving car.
为了进一步扩充自己的电动车配件，戴姆勒在电动汽车厂商特斯拉汽车公司(TeslaMotors)一直占有10%的股份。
Further expanding its EV options, Daimler is holding on to its 10% stake in Tesla Motors (TSLA).
硅谷的另一家汽车初创公司特斯拉遇到了更多的不顺。
Silicon Valley's other big car start-up, Tesla, experienced more bad news.
马斯克是否一直都有将这两家公司合并的意愿？或许吧。不过关于特斯拉，还有以下五件事是你可能不知道的。
Was it always Musk's intention to merge them? Perhaps. Here are five other things you may not know about Tesla.
不过特斯拉是建设中的电动聪明，设定为两年内推出电池组负责，因此该公司在周三晚上，在纽约党智能停泊。
But Tesla is responsible for building the battery pack in the electric Smart that's set to debut within two years, so the company had a Smart parked at the New York party on Wednesday night.
在某些方面，特斯拉的表现比以往更像是一家初创公司，而这也在将其高管逼向绝境。
In some ways it's acting more like a startup than ever before and likewise pushing its executives to the brink.
并且，公司已经进入刚刚兴起的电网蓄电池行业，为特斯拉的产品线增添了全新的成员。
The company has also jumped into the grid battery industry, which has itself has only just emerged, and is a yet another entirely new product line for Tesla.
尽管公司上市已有五年时间，但特斯拉与许多最具破坏性的互联网创业公司一样，依旧保持着灵活性和风险偏好。
Despite five years as a public company, Tesla still remains nimble and retains its appetite for risk, similar to many of the most disruptive Internet startups.
据报道，这家公司去年成立，已有200名员工，其中一些来自特斯拉。
That company was reportedly founded last year, and already has 200 employees-including some from Tesla.
特斯拉比世界上任何一家汽车公司都更加重视利用软件和无线网络来对车子进行频繁升级。
More than any other car company in the world, Tesla has focused on using software and wireless connectivity to routinely upgrade its cars.
特斯拉可以提供初创公司经常提供的经济和个人奖励，如令人愉悦的任务驱动型工作环境。
Tesla can offer the financial and personal rewards — an exhilarating, mission-driven work environment — that a startup offers.
他的公司最终以发明家、电气工程师尼古拉·特斯拉的名字命名。
Instead, the company was named after Nikola Tesla, the inventor and electrical engineer.
这家公司可能把重点放在向中国消费者销售电动车上。进入中国市场的难度特别大，特斯拉在这方面就遇到了很多困难。
The company could be focused on selling electric cars to consumers in China, where the market is particularly difficult to break into and where Tesla has struggled.
六月份，特斯拉宣布，七年前加入公司的阿胡加即将退休，但他会一直留在公司，直到公司找到接替他的适当人选。
In June, Tesla said that Ahuja, who joined the company seven years ago, would retire but would remain at the company until a replacement is found.
上周，特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·穆斯克在电话里告诉记者，该公司对电池进行了改进，具体方法是在阳极中使用了一些硅材料，进而改变了电池的化学反应过程。
During a call with reporters last week, CEO Elon Musk said the company had improved the battery by shifting the cell chemistry for the pack to partially use silicon in the anode.
此外，特斯拉还在加紧设计Model3汽车。这款汽车成本更低，公司希望它的销量能够超过之前的型号。
On top of all that, Tesla TSLA -4.71% is hard at work designing the model 3 car, a lower cost vehicle that it hopes will be able to sell in higher volumes than its previous models.
汽车制造商和能源公司特斯拉提交加州汽车管理局的报告显示，2016年已开始在加州公开道路上测试四辆自动驾驶车。
The automaker and energy company started testing four self-driving cars on California's public roads in 2016, according to its disengagement report filed with the California DMV.
电动马达取代了汽油引擎和16.5千瓦小时的电池系统，由特斯拉汽车公司提出，在中赛车的部分。
An electric motor replaces the gasoline engine and a 16.5 kilowatt-hour battery system, made by Tesla Motors, is in the mid-section of the car.
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