This car inspired Elon Musk! tZero by AC Propulsion
When Elon first drove the tZero, he wanted AC Propulsion to commercialize it, but they weren’t interested in building cars. Instead Elon would be introduced to Tesla and invest in them and eventually take it over instead. At first, AC Propulsion was partnered with Tesla. The first Roadsters used AC Propulsion systems, but Tesla reverse engineered the components and cut AC Propulsion out.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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